In Christ, we are a new creation. We, each of us, have been transformed and we need to look at the world, not from the human, but from the divine perspective. What does that mean to you? Paul saw the coming of Christ as the new act of creation. Just as in Genesis, God dramatically spoke creation, our world, into being. The coming of Christ was a new creation that freed humans from bondage and moved us into the light of life. Christ was and is the new beginning of our lives in relationships to God. What was old has been washed away. We are renewed and transformed.

As faithful followers of Jesus, it is not that Jesus simply reordered the world, but that we are called into living in the risen Christ. We are called to become involved in the new transformed order created through the coming of Je…