Working to Reveal vs Working to Become

…behavior cannot change what we are.  We are what we are by birth, and to change we must be born again.  Again, Christian growth is simply accepting what we have always been from the first day we accepted Christ.  The word grow teaches this very thing, as it means to expand what already exists…either we are growing in bondage to Adam’s life or growing in the freedom of Christ’s life.

…If you are born again, your old Adam-life has been put to death and replaced with Christ’s very life…if we know who we are, then the doing is natural.

…this is true salvation – to be free from the old identity and unholy trinity…the carnal believer walks after the flesh and then makes attempts to walk after the Spirit, never knowing which fits best…

Throw away those old garments of sin, failure, and defeat, and put on Christ.

- Mike Wells

Comment:

It is one of the most dynamic truths of the New Testament: a Christian’s old Adam-life has been put to death and replaced with Christ’s very life.  Unbelievably, far too many cannot accept that.  Accepting what we have always been from the first day we accepted Christ is really impossible IF we cannot accept our old Adam-life has been put to death and replaced with Christ’s very life.  Simple.  Short.  Succinct.  The focus never leaves the old Adam-life.  The efforts continue to be those of trying to change and “clean up” the old life, instead of walking in the REST of knowing our life is Christ’s life.

How nice it is to live wanting to reveal the new me, instead of working to become something I could never attain.  No wonder that was a sickening life!

How nice it is to know that growing in Christ is simply accepting what we have always been from the first day I accepted Christ.  Boy, that takes a load off.  And wow…it is so relaxing to grow by “accepting” instead of “working”!!!