We cannot change ourselves, we must be changed by Christ. We can try to change ourselves only to revert as soon as the change becomes burdensome, one has to keep trying! But when Christ changes us we need not try, we become hard-wired to think the way He thinks. The WAY we process information is the WAY we act and think. Christ changes our minds to think the WAY He thinks.
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."
John 14:5-7 "5 “Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”…'
When we think like Christ because He lives in us and we seek Him for all things, then we will speak and act the WAY we think without effort.
Romans 8:10
10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness."
4. Galatians 2:20—“It is Christ who lives in me”
“I am crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.”
If we keep trying in our flesh to be good, we will keep failing, but if we trust in Christ to change us then we will act Christlike without even having to think about it.
How can a fallen and sinful man do anything to change his sinfulness?...... He cannot, it must be Christ Who does the changing in us. If you are trying in the flesh you will fail and it will not count with God. Even if you think you have succeeded, you have diluted yourself, real change and permanent eternal change comes only from Christ from the inside.
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