A Commitment To Change

Ephesians 4:24 "And that ye put on the new man,which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness".

Saints at our best we are still a filthy rag,but thanks be to God we don't have to stay that way.Through the blood of Jesus we can now shed the ways of the old man, and be born a new,become another, someone totally different from the first. God very much wants us to become converted,to be one of his converts.He wants us not only to learn, but practice His ways of life,to become sincerely and thoroughly committed to it.He promises us His help if we willingly follow His instructions.Through His spirit He will empower us to "put on the new man which is created according to God,in true righteousness and holiness". His purpose is to change us to convert us from the inside,from the heart.Remember God is the only source of righteous character.

In the bible we find details of God's resolve to save us from the spiritual malaise that has plagued us throughout history.It explains the source of our behavioral and spiritual problems.It shows the difference between God's devine nature and our human nature,and describes His plan to change our basic attitudes and responses to life's everyday situations.It reveals God's commitment expressed in His exceedingly great and precious promises to make us partakers of the devine nature. Our thoughts and emotions are directly linked to our fleshly impulses and desires.We are born with them.But we are born with neither the knowledge nor the power to properly manage them.Our natural impulse and desires are often affected and even manipulated by external pressures.( often situations and circumstances dictate the actions and attitude we display).

Saints only our creator can give us the power to rightly manage our thoughts and attitudes and resist the temptations that bombard us daily and sometimes every hour on the hour.Therefore the process requires the direct and active intervention of God.First He calls us by opening our minds to understand the scriptures.Then He begins turning our lives around if we willingly respond to His calling and cooperate with Him.Our commitment to change causes us to be converted,to turn to God with our whole life.Well what separates us from God? Our sins and iniquities have hidden his face from us,so that he will not hear(Isaiah 59:1). To receive the blessings and other help from God, we must turn to him,we must turn away from satan's ways, the ways of the old man,by turning to God's ways, the ways of the new man.Each of us MUST accept and respond to God's terms and conditions for the forgiveness of sin. We must be commited , converted and changed from the old and and his ways to the new man and the ways of God...........