The Old Self to the New

I suppose I will never completely get my act cleaned up, but I can try. My old self pops up from time to time but God is such a forgiving God. He understands and gave me the example of The Lord's Prayer; whereby I can ask His forgiving every day. "Father forgive my debts as I also forgive my debtors."

My Plan 

 

Heaven is perfect and I am not! 

Jesus was sinless and I am not!

But I am taught and bought

With a price

And promised paradise.

For that reason, I have a desire to be more God-aligned

And not remaining blind.

I need to change from the inside not the out;

Against the world, stand tall and stout.

It can’t be done by a nail manicure,

That is for sure.

It can’t be done by buying a brand-new hat

Or in a room full of idle chitchat.

It can’t be done by changing the color of my hair

But only through prayer.

I need to change my heart

As a start.

I need to change the direction of my thoughts,

Or it will be all for naught.

I need to change my values or what I most desire

in order toward God, to have my heart set on fire. 

Within my heart I need a cleansing from the sins that bind

To become more God-aligned.

I need to love, not just some but everyone,

But I’m not done.

I need to make a decision 

To change my vision,

Change my speech,

Change my outreach.

Love is my long-range plan-

Love for Jesus and for man.

 

Mary Crisp Jameson  4/9/2025

 

“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” Ephesians 4:22-24 

The Unparishable

The Redemptive Plan from Old to New

 

My redemptive plan started before the world began.

God had a plan that He would expand.

The story is woven from beginning to end

About a shedding of blood that God would send.

It’s a story of death, renewal, and reconciliation

From Genesis to Revelation.

God’s redemptive plan is a connection between blood and sin;

Of how slavery can end and freedom ring in.

The plan began when God first covered Adam and Eve with an animal skin;

It was to hide their sin.

Later, the Israelites used doves and lambs for sacrifices to absolve their wicked ways,

But these were only temporary, perishable things during their days.

From the Old Testament to the New, the perishable was used until God send His Son

For His redemptive plan to be finally done!

The narrative shifted

When God’s own Son was gifted.

There was no longer to be a temporary, perishable sacrifice;

One not done twice or thrice,

But only once-and-done by God’s only Son.

And, it was for all and anyone!

When Jesus hung His head, and His broken body was diminished,

He cried out, “It is finished!”

Jesus exchanged His unblemished, spotless perfection for my sin

To give me heaven’s permanent win.

He gave me a once-and-done blood provision-

His Father’s foreknown redemptive vision.

As One, 

Father and Son,

They completed the redemptive plan for man.

Jesus obeyed His Father’s will 

And He lives still!

For this reason, I, too, live still, to count the days

Until, upon heaven’s gate, I gaze.

 

Mary Crisp Jameson 3/6/2025

 

“For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world…” 1 Peter 1:18-20a