Remade - We are new! | BETH KINDER

I saw her. She walks with a smile, but her shoulders are weighted down with the things she harbors. Her heart overwhelmed by the shame of her past. Instant replays fill her mind, they come from a bottomless pit of regret. Like a record needle skipping across the vinyl, the words won’t cease! Every time she begins to start new, the clamor becomes more powerful – defeated before she even starts. All the reminders of what she’s done, the list of her faults, failures, and mistakes. Every word carries the stitching to the cloak of guilt she hides under, and the glue to keep her masked in shame. Her cloak and mask are invisible only to the world, but not to the One who REALLY sees her and wants her FREE.

That was me… I remember her like it was yesterday. Although I have overcome, the enemy won’t miss an opportunity to test and see if I believe what I’ve been told. When this ministry was taking shape, I remember how for weeks I kept getting daily reminders of all the things that could be said about me, once I went beyond the security of ministering to those in my church. My past was up for grabs, and there were many who would be happy to see me fail miserably. The fear of what people would think or say was paralyzing. One morning I woke up to a song that starts “I won’t deny the worst you could say about me.” The words to that song became louder and louder. Every time I would sing, it was as though the Lord was shredding the list being read over and over in my mind!

I was reminded, once again, that He loved this broken vessel when I was tattered and could offer nothing, and now He had Remade me, and He wasn’t worried about what others would say because that isn’t who I am now! Through that song, and the scripture Jeremiah 18:4, Remade Ministries was born. The ministry is the testimony of what God had done in my life, and would do in the lives of other women. Remade Ministries became the answer to all those accusing voices, to all those who can say something about me. Remade IS how God see’s me and others. We’ve been MADE NEW!

Living a Christian life is a lot about making choices. I was making choices to believe things that were not true, and now I have the freedom to make new choices, and believe what is true! I know, like me, there are other women out there who can’t own this truth; that through Christ they have been made COMPLETELY new. It took time for me, and being intentional about moving in a new direction, and thinking a new way.

Here were some of my first few steps:

First Step: Refusing to entertain the voice in my head with the insatiable appetite for my attention. I CHOSE to believe 2 Corinthians 5:17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

Second Step: I stopped rehearsing my mistakes. I CHOSE to follow Isaiah 43:18 Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. If I believed in Step One, then I had to walk out step two!

Third Step: I CHOSE to believe who I am now in 1 Corinthians 6:11 Some of you were once like that [totally messed up]. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (I added the totally messed up part) 🙂

Fourth Step: Finally, I CHOSE to accept that I am a work in progress: And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. Phil. 1:6