I was full of sin before Christ saved me. I loved the things of the world and enjoyed things I should never have enjoyed.
Thank God He changed me. I no longer thought the WAY I used to think. I lost interest in worldly things when I became born again.
What happened was in brokenness of spirit over sinfulness. I confessed it and asked to be released from my sin. God changed me into a new creation. My desires completely changed into His desires.
Then I began to read the Bible and within its pages, I saw what I was before and what I had become and was full of joy.
Knowing that Christ is the One Who changed me gave me great peace that He was going to continue the holiness process until the day I leave this world.
The great peace and joy He gave me is not outward but deeply inward. Fear of others left me, fear of failure left me, fear of going to hell....gone!!!
From the point of salvation to now God has been strengthening me beyond words. I know He will not fail me. I have no fear of losing people who are worldly, I wish they would come along but if they don't I am a friend of Christ. The best friend anyone could have.
John 15:15
"15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you."
Do you want to have this peace and joy too? If you do all you have to do is believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and He does all the rest of the work in you.
Ephesians 2:10
"10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
2 Corinthians 5:16-18 "…16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:…"
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