I can not take credit for all of that title. The other day, I saw a post from one of my son's high school friends that had posted a picture of a decal on her vehicle. It was a megaphone with her name and the school name on the bottom of it. Her caption read "Out with the Old..."
Just that quick, it was over. We plan for a year our child's final nine months of school and then it's over. There are homecomings, proms, assemblies, awards....and then it's over.
I am at the beginning of that trek for the last time except this time it hits closer to home. Our other two children have graduated. One is a sophmore in college, the other enters his freshman year this fall. But this one is the youngest and the closest. To think that the next nine months we will put so much effort to making it a memory. Ads in programs, scholarship and college entrance applications, senior pictures and so much more.
We are coming into that dreaded eighteenth year. Not one that allows extra "privilidges" in our home as so many think but one that catapaults them into another stage of life and it happened overnight. He will soon walk across a stage into adulthood...a world awaits him. This morning as they paint the panther paw with my son's football number on my driveway, I am reminded that all too soon, it will be "out with the old."
This is the beginning of the transition, the transition into a new life.
That is also the beauty of transitioning into a life with with Christ. When we come to Christ, in an instant, He gives us new hope. It is doubtful that my our children linger on the days of high school when they enter this new phase. So it is with those in Christ. Regardless of all you have done or said or been in the past, in one instant it can be "Out with the Old and In with the New."
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.
2 Corthians 5:17
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