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"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." - Galatians 2:20

"No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.  But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved. No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’" - Luke 5:37-38 

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” - Matthew 9: 16-17 

  

"In the same way, look upon yourselves as dead to the appeal and power of sin but alive to God through Christ Jesus our Lord. Do not, then, allow sin to establish any power over your mortal bodies in making you give way to its lusts. Nor hand over your bodily parts to be, as it were, weapons of evil for the devil's purpose. But, like men rescued from certain death, put yourselves in God's hands as weapons of good for his own purposes. For sin can never be your master; you are no longer living under the law, but under grace." - Romans 6:11-14

 

The Christian Life is not about patching up your old self. Its not about metamorphosis. Or as Lady gaga says " I am born this way" and being happy and content living fallen and sinful and to be the queen of this world that breathes of our fallen nature, dead. nor about fixing the old. or even earning points, maintaining certain standards or keeping scores.

Its about total discard of the old system and self, and accepting the New. Only found in Jesus Christ, the way, truth and Life. In Him we become an entirely new creation. Our inheritance is in heaven. Its about being born again, putting on an entirely new garment. Living by the Spirit. Its when self dies and Christ lives. We are definitely still imperfect and we make mistakes, we still sin, but we can trust the Lord in perfecting us in our heart and thoughts as we continue to walk and follow Him. And may it be displayed in truth and deed :)

peace !