Are you a good person? Are you kind to your family, friends, neighbors, and strangers? Are you responsive to helping those in need? How you respond to life, both physically and emotionally, reveal a lot about who you are. Are you a spiritual person? Your spirituality is directly influenced by the Holy Spirit. Only through the strength of the Spirit can you transform into the person God wants you to be. Paul says in Ephesians 4:22–23 (NLT), “Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.” Paul is teaching us, the Spirit has the ability to actively renew your thoughts and attitude, inspiring you to make more good choices. It will give you the courage to fight your personal desires and the influence of Satan, resulting in better choices being made. Satan will tell you to keep being who you are and don’t let anyone change you. He’ll have you convinced, you couldn’t change if you wanted to. Here’s the Truth. Everyone needs to change and everyone can change. If we’re not changing, we’re not transforming into the person God wants us to be. We need to transform from less of an existence of the flesh, to more of an existence of the Spirit.
To transform spiritually, you can’t concern yourself with the past. Your past does not define you; your past refines you into something beautiful, something Godly, and something spiritual. Spirituality is a refining process that transforms you into a better version of yourself. If you stop spiritually transforming, Satan will use your complacency to spiritually attack. He wants to influence you to move away from the Light and back toward the darkness where you’ll make more bad choices.
If you think you’ve fallen short your whole life and you don’t have a chance, you’re dead wrong. Matter of fact, the more broken you can admit you are, the more likely you are to realize how much you need God. To begin experiencing a relationship with God, declare you accept His gift of grace and forgiveness. Ephesians 2:8–10 (NLT) says, “God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” Don’t you want to be a part of the good things God planned for you?
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