"Under New Management"

Have you ever been by a restaurant or business and noticed a sign in the window that read, "Under New Management?"  Sometimes this can be a good thing or a bad thing.  I noticed one the other day in one of my favorite restaurants and it made me wonder...

You see, we all enter this world under management.  We all live our lives under management.  And at the end of the day, we all die under management.  Sadly, too many people are living their lives--and too many people are dying--with the same management under which they were born.

The Bible says that we were all born into sin--which we have from birth a nature that is sinful. So many people around us are living and dying in that sin. But the Bible also says that you don’t have to live in sin... and you don’t have to die in sin.

If you are a believer in Jesus Christ you are no longer under the old management.  Because of what Jesus did on the cross you have a new nature, and you have been placed under new management. 

"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ² in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. ³ All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh^[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. ⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. ⁶ And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

Ephesians 2:1-10

If we are in Jesus Christ, you WERE dead, but NOW you are alive.

You WERE unrighteous, but NOW you have been purified in the blood of the lamb.

You WERE objects of wrath, but NOW you stand before God forgiven.

Because of God’s love, we have been brought out of our past condition...

And he has given us a hope--an assurance for the future that can come about only though a decision to follow Jesus Christ.

I wonder today if this is a sign that you can honestly hang in the window of your heart.  Perhaps it may have been placed there long ago, but it's dusty or covered.

Blessings!