Allowing God to change your heart
Change is hard. Sometimes you can think you’ve changed and then sometimes you fail and feel like you’ve ended up exactly where you’ve started. I think that might have been kind of how Paul felt when he wrote this in Romans 7:15-20:
“For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.”
But we can be confident that as long as we are saved that God is doing a work in our lives and that He is helping us to be more like Christ. Philippians 1:6 says, “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” You can be certain that God is doing a work in your life and that He is making you more like Christ even though it may not look like it every day.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 says, “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.” Some translations say He will do it. God will do a mighty work in your life to help you to die to self and to love God and to love others. We are all in this race together! Let us be faithful to encourage each other and to speak the truth in love, faithfully running this race!
“For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.”
But we can be confident that as long as we are saved that God is doing a work in our lives and that He is helping us to be more like Christ. Philippians 1:6 says, “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” You can be certain that God is doing a work in your life and that He is making you more like Christ even though it may not look like it every day.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 says, “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.” Some translations say He will do it. God will do a mighty work in your life to help you to die to self and to love God and to love others. We are all in this race together! Let us be faithful to encourage each other and to speak the truth in love, faithfully running this race!
I love your verse in Philippians 1:6 that says, “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” I know that God is calling you to serve Him and that you have a passion to love God and others. He is bringing your life into alignment with His purpose for you as you continue to be faithful in all you do.
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