Release The Old • Daily Devo #477
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
The Message For Today (March 9, 2026):
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We live inside of a generation where there is a tug of war. There’s a tug of war between the generations. There’s a tug of war between modernism and traditionalism. There’s even a tug of war between the old us and the new us. Things that we desire to learn and grow into, and that feeling that we’re abandoning things like tradition.
Things that have passed down through the generations. And there is this battle that, as we’re facing new seasons, we’re wondering what needs to be released and what needs to be maintained. What needs to be let go, and what is appropriate for us to carry from season to season. Discernment is the key to knowing what is truly a cornerstone of our faith versus what is tradition and no longer serves us.
On a personal level, the tug of war is often between the person we have always known and the person we are becoming. There is a journey to be had and to grow. The Bible tells us that our job is to press toward the mark. Specifically, we’re told to forget those things which are behind. In Philippians 3:13-14 in the King James Version, it reads:
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 3:13-14 KJV
This scripture shows us that a lot of what we do in terms of debating the old versus the new is us refusing to let go, being afraid of the unknown, and holding on to those things that we’ve apprehended. Those things that we have achieved. Those things that we have accomplished and that we find to be a part of our identity.
This is why so many, when looking at a job loss or a relationship change, feel as if they don’t know who they are or that they have to find themselves again. The reason for this is that we’ve made our accomplishments synonymous with who we are, versus understanding that who we are is the cornerstone.
