Upside down

This week at our Romanian Holiday Club we've been telling the children about Peter and of how he was so changed by knowing Jesus. This is an amazing transformation. Peter goes from being a fisherman which people wouldn't necessarily have noticed, to a man that changes the way we think of God. 
Jesus enters his life and Peter is no longer a nobody, but instead he becomes a somebody. We are the same. When we receive Jesus into our lives and accept Him as Lord and Saviour, our lives get turned upside down. Jesus doesn't only free us from death and sin, but He also changes our whole lives and makes us brand new! 
We are a new creation through the cross of Christ. We need to remember that He paid the price so that we could be different. I would never have imagined coming to Romania to work with children, but because Jesus is Lord of my life, He enables me to do things that I wouldn't even have dreamt of. Just like Peter. Peter never imagined that he would be stood up in front of a crowd and telling them the good news of Jesus. He never thought in his wildest imagination that he would see people become followers of Christ, he never thought that he would be famous. We need to remember that we are the people that God has called us to be, and that He has called us because we are who we are. Let's allow God to enable us to be a Peter for our world and allow God to do amazing things through us that will surprise us and Glorify Him!