Newness...

I have been enjoying a song by the band Gungor called "Beautiful Things".

The bridge of the song says: "You make me new, You are making me new."
A lot of songs talk about the newness of who we are in Christ. A lot of scripture talks about that too, most popular being probably 2 Cor 5:17.

There is a lot to be said about the finished work of the cross, too much to fit in a blog.
One thing I know, is that all my life, in spite of these scriptures and the Holy Spirit's reminders, I seem to not be able to get that truth. Only in the past 2 years have I come to believe that truth. Why?

I think sometimes we hear things the Bible says and subconsciously reject it because it doesn't match up with our felt experience. That's where the line between faith/truth and experience is formed.

Take a second to think about being a new creation. ALL THINGS NEW?!
Think about the implications of that statement.

There are many theologians who, due to their experience have had to form doctrines that veer around the simplicity of that statement and so many other entire books and chapters of the Bible which correspond to that statement (namely Colossians, Ephesians, Galatians, the gospels, Romans, etc. etc.... the whole New Testament?)

If faith is the substance of things "hoped" for, and the evidence of things unseen (not yet seen). Perhaps, our experience has no right to alter what scripture says in accordance to what we "know".

Is the irony that what so many theologians have said based on experience and ideas, actually places us in a quandry, in that we reject faith for feeling? Our feelings should be influenced by our faith, not the other way around. Our experience should come out of our faith, not the other way around. Faith based on experience is subjectively based on the experience, if the experience leaves, then you have to form an explanation. That could get disappointing.

That's just some thinking out-loud....