CHRIST CHANGES US
Gal. 6:15 It doesn’t make any difference now whether we have been
circumcised or not. What counts is whether we really have been changed into new
and different people. NLT
The only thing that
really matters as far as God is concerned is whether or not we have been
changed into a new and different people.
Jesus saves us to change us and if we are not changed we are not His. There are many different ways in which He
changes us.
He changes the way we
think about life, others and ourselves.
We come to understand that life is not meaningless, that it indeed has a
purpose rooted in Christ. We discover
that every person has a soul and is of great worth in God’s eyes. We discover that we are special to God and
that He chose us to be His children. We
discover that all of life revolves around Christ and not us.
He changes the way we
feel. In place of sinful passions He
installs godly passions. He tempers our
feelings that are fueled by sin and gives us the ability to react in a more
godly way. He gets to the root of our
feelings and transforms them into a more acceptable way of feeling.
He changes the ways
of our hearts. He works to transform our
motives into that which pleases God. He
redirects our motives so that we live to please God and not man or ourselves.
He changes our desires
so that we will want to seek after the things of God. He keeps working on us so that we will want
to spend time with Him in His Word and prayer.
He instills within us a desire to be in fellowship with His
children. He changes the desires we have
for the things of the world to desires for the things of God.
The many ways God changes
us should be obvious to all, including ourselves. We should be able to take a regular
examination of ourselves and see progress.
If we are not changing like we should, then we are not properly
connected to Christ.
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