Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

We hear it everywhere...we see the symbol all around.

It struck me the other day ...that is what Christianity is about!

Taking the old and making something new, we are repurposed!

Reduce, reuse, recycle, renew, repurpose!

"Recycling uses old products in new ways. Reduce means to minimize the amount of waste we create. Reuse refers to using items more than once. Recycle means putting a product to a new use instead of throwing it away." (Google.com)

I have seen rethink added.

Reduce: we as Christians must reduce...our use of foul words, our bitterness, our anger, our self centeredness.

📖 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Ephesians 4:29

📖 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Ephesians 4:31

📖 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. Roman's 12:3

Reduce anything that is not like that of Christ.

📖 He must become greater; I must become less. John 3:30

Reuse: make sure we are using over and over again; kindness, compassion, grace, generosity. humility, love.

📖 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone Colossians 2:10

📖 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Colossians 3:12

📖 Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. 1 peter 3:8

Reuse all the attributes of Jesus

📖 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 3:22-23

Rethink: realigning our thought process to that of Jesus. 

📖 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. Isaiah 55:8

📖  In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Philippians 2:5

📖 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2

God repurposes us...

📖 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. Genesis 50:20

📖 Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isaiah 64:8

Aren't we glad that God had the idea of recycling long before we did!

📖 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18

📖 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17