If I Am in Christ, What Am I?

This week’s verse comes from the book of 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians is an epistle, or letter. The book was written by the missionary Paul. This letter tells the Corinthian church to stop sinning and encourages them to live for Christ. It also contains the famous chapter about love.

When Jesus talked with Nicodemus about being born again, He used references from the Old Testament that Nicodemus would have known. In John 3:14 He references a story about Moses and a serpent.

Let’s read about it in Numbers 21:4-9.

What happened to the sick people who looked at the bronze serpent God told Moses to make?
What happens to us when we accept Jesus as our Savior? Hint: What are we saved from? What does this week’s verse say we become?

Yes. Because of sin, our earthly bodies (our tent) will not go to heaven with us. But that’s ok because God says He will give us new bodies in heaven (2 Corinthians 5:1). In heaven, we will be free from any difficulties our bodies experience on earth, such as broken bones, colds or other sicknesses.

No! John 3:16, Acts 16:31 and many other verses in the Bible are clear that belief in Jesus (that He died and rose again to pay for our sins and that He offers us salvation) is all that is needed. You may have been very young when you trusted Jesus as Savior and not remember some details like a date. As long as you have believed and accepted salvation as the Bible says, you can trust you are saved.

When we accept Jesus as our Savior, He makes us a new creation! Make a new creation in your journal. It doesn’t need to have a shape or be something familiar to humans. Maybe it’s built out of words, or it’s a silly drawing or a collage you cut up and glue into your journal. Whatever it is, make it something completely new!