Have you ever walked past a restaurant or store and noticed a big sign in the window that said “UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT”? This sign is to let people know that the place has changed ownership and improvement can be expected. But have you ever heard of PEOPLE being under new management? Actually, that is something that has been happening for centuries and is no doubt happening somewhere right now. The Bible has many examples of people who came “under new management.” The Apostle Paul is one, but I am going to tell you of a more recent example — a man named Jack.
Jack grew up attending Sunday school, learning Bible verses, and hearing the gospel message faithfully preached. But he became a wild and troublesome teenager, and soon he was keeping wild company. By the time he had reached middle age, he was well known in the area as a violent drunk who had caused his wife and children so much hardship that one of the children said she wished her father would die.
One night as he staggered home, he fell into a ditch with water in it. As he lay in that disgraceful condition, he felt he had come to the end of the life he was living. He dragged himself to his knees and cried out to God to save him — to take the wreckage he had made of his life and, in his words, “make a good job of me.”
God heard Jack’s prayer and answered it, and Jack knew it. He got up, went home, and told his family that he was now UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT! He was going to be a different man from then on — he was under new ownership. And he was true to his word, because as he allowed the Lord Jesus to lead him and help him in times of temptation, his life was changed.
In time Jack became a well-known preacher, traveling from place to place and telling what the Lord had done for him and what He could do for others whose lives were in desperate need of changing. People accepted his message, because they saw the change in him.
Jack is now with the One who saved him from his wretched life. His story will always prove that if we ask the Lord Jesus to be Lord of our lives, a change will take place, and we too will be UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. The Bible says, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:1717Therefore 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)).