“Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.” (2 Cor. 5:17)

According to St. Paul, the definition of “new being” was whether or not one could live in Christ.  When we try our best to live His Holy Will, we are living in Christ.  We can say that “to practice God’s Will” is equivalent to “living in Christ”.  Eventually, this is the ideal that all of us should live out and achieve in our life.

St. Paul thoroughly understood this teaching of Jesus: “You should all bear your own cross daily”. This was why St. Paul deliberately emphasized the importance of having a fresh start “daily” in his letters.   He said “We should wear a new self and get rid of the old self daily”.  He laid special emphasis on “daily”, because he knew that man was prone to absent-mindedness and tend to worry about things in the past or things that have not yet happened, and thus overlook the present moment.

Let us live in the “present moment”, and fulfill the work assigned to us by God with all our heart, mind, effort, and will.