Salvation turns the soul completely around!

(Henry Law, "Gleanings from the Book of Life")

(You will find it helpful to LISTEN to the Audio, as you READ the text below.)

2 Corinthians 5:17, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

By nature, our course of life is wholly sinward.

Our every step is deviation from the ways of God.

Our back is turned to heaven and spiritual realities.

This world, with . . .
  its polluting pleasures,
  its empty vanities,
  its unsatisfying shadows,
  its deceitful pomps and honors,
is sought with blinded zeal!

Our daily movement is a Hellward descent.

But salvation turns the soul completely around!

Objects we once shunned, are now desired.

That which we now love, we once hated.

Our former pleasures retain no relish.

The mask which once hid the hideous features of the world, has fallen off its face!

The other lords which so long exercised dominion over us, are now renounced as cruel tyrants. Their yoke is broken, and their scepter is shattered!

"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory!" Colossians 3:1-4