New creation

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. – Galatians 6.15

I don't think I get this concept of 'new creation' like I should. I think we see the idea of ‘new creation’ in at least a couple of days. In one way is the well-known passage that ‘if any man be in Christ he is a new creation.’ That is a personal application. When I became a Christian I was a new Roger. I was no longer the same old man. I became a Christian, one who has the power in Christ to live for Him. 

But that is not the topic here. Paul is speaking of another aspect of being a new creation. 

In Christ nothing else matters. It doesn’t matter if one is a Jew or a Gentile. It makes no difference what shade of colour his sin is.  It makes no difference if he is Irish or British or American or German or French or from any other country. It makes no difference, in our own culture, if he is settled or a traveller. It makes no difference. One name and one name only matters – that name is ‘Christian.’ All the rest is peripheral. All those barriers have really been peripheral since the Day One. 

All of us are descendants of Adam and Eve. We are all ‘made of one blood.’ The world has drawn up false divisions based on national borders or skin colour or facial features or whatever. But God created Adam and Eve and every one of us are related to them and to each other. There are no races but two – the race to destruction and the race to heaven. 

There is division in man’s race to destruction – but not in the Christian race. 

There is no room for false divisions in the Christian race. We are one. In too many circles racism and classism and nationalism still hang on. 

Are we a new creation, or are we bound by the world's false divisions?