Transition

A few years ago I bought a new NIV Study Bible and it’s still new. I keep using my old Bible even though some of the pages are falling out and the corners are turned up, the index tabs are no longer readable and the leather cover is worn and torn. My old Bible is so comfortable that the only way to transition to the new Bible is to throw the old away. It’s painful…I even dug it out of the trash once to compare it to the new Bible. I think of the followers of Moses having to transition from the Law to the grace found in Jesus Christ. Paul said, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come” (2 Cor 5:17 NIV)!