Broken Or Made Whole?

Recently I heard people speaking and sharing the idea that we as Christians are vile and worms in comparison to God, they repeated this idea several times. I had not heard that for a long time and I have to admit it was a good thing to hear...not because I believe it, but to challenge me to research what I do believe and why! =) 
     Sometimes we can fall into a habit of just believing what we believe because we have believed it for a long time! It becomes a habit. =/
     It is good to go back and refresh our understanding. So today I have spent a great deal of time reading and rereading why I do not believe I am vile! I believe I am a new creation! Yes, I was vile but the Lord has cleansed me and in Him, I am a new creation! 
     As a Christian, we know that we are made from dust, and we know that outside of being covered by Jesus' blood we have no forgiveness, no hope, and a very dismal future. We know that in ourselves there is no good thing! 
          BUT~~

     As a Christian, we also know that we are covered by Jesus' blood! We know we are forgiven! We know that we are eternal beings with a hope and a great future! We know we are children of the One True King! We know we have been set free from our sinful nature and that our Father is working to bring us to all good things! We know that we are seated at the right hand of the Father, that we are in Christ and He is in us!
     I'm writing this to encourage you to recognize that before you believed and trusted in Jesus, yes, you were vile and broken! You were without hope! without forgiveness! but please don't stay there! Move into the Sonship, move into your new self, you have been made whole! He didn't bring you out of your brokenness so that you could spend your time thinking about how bad you were before, He brought you out so you could become a part of the Kingdom and touch the world! Hear your calling! Move forward!

Jesus did His part in covering you, now do your part in living in Him and Him in you!

If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing.1 John 1:9 CJB

Since all have sinned and come short of earning God’s praise. By God’s grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua. God put Yeshua forward as the kapparah (propitiation, sacrifice)for sin through his faithfulness in respect to his bloody sacrificial death. This vindicated God’s righteousness; because, in his forbearance, he had passed over [with neither punishment nor remission] the sins people had committed in the past; and it vindicates his righteousness in the present age by showing that he is righteous himself and is also the one who makes people righteous on the ground of Yeshua’s faithfulness. Romans 3:23-26 CJB

But God is so rich in mercy and loves us with such intense love that, even when we were dead because of our acts of disobedience, he brought us to life along with the Messiah — it is by grace that you have been delivered. That is, God raised us up with the Messiah Yeshua and seated us with Him in heaven, Ephesians 2:4-6 CJB

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. It is through his Son that we have redemption — that is, our sins have been forgiven. Colossians 1:13-14 CJB

Therefore, just as you received the Messiah Yeshua as Lord, keep living your life united with him. Remain deeply rooted in him; continue being built up in him and confirmed in your trust, the way you were taught, so that you overflow in thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7

He then adds,“ ‘And their sins and their wickednesses
I will remember no more.’ Hebrews 10:17 CJB

And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:19-22 NLT

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV

He has removed our sins from us
as far as the east is from the west. Psalms 103:12 CJB

Which Path Do You Choose?

I was just receiving this teaching about healing from the Holy Spirit. I was seeing so clearly that when we receive healing we are faced with two paths to choose between. Imagine you're walking on a path and then it divides, there is a sign pointing in each direction, one says flesh....one says Spirit.
     There are times we are prayed for and receive healing but we don't "absorb" it, we may not feel healed and we don't put it into our belief system that we are healed. 
     We have a choice to make, we may believe the "symptoms" that we've been dealing with and walk their path or we may choose to believe the "healing" and walk it's path.
     The choice is ours, we are the healed (Isa 53:5), do we walk as the healed or do we choose to trust our flesh more than the truth of the Spirit and the healing?  
     It might be easier for us if we were able to make the choice once and for ever, but the test is in choosing daily to walk in the healing. We may have to remind ourselves by repeating the promises in Scripture....through Jesus' stripes I am the healed, I am a new creation, I am fearfully and wonderfully made! ....or we can listen to our flesh that loves to whine and get attention and demand to be made comfortable.
     You choose your path, are you sick or are you healed? If you accept the healing then find a way to absorb it, and to daily stay on that path! These scriptures help me, but there are many more, find the ones that work for you:

1. The punishment, which made us well, was given to him, and we are healed because of his wounds. Isaiah 53:5b

2 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17

3 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:14

I'm not saying that it is always easy, and Yes, my flesh still fights and tries to win, but I am much happier and healthier when I am listening to my spirit and the Holy Spirit in me!