When we accept Christ, what is supposed to change?
We are!
The Lord accepts us just as we are, but that’s not where we’re supposed to stay. In fact it’s almost impossible to do. You’re going to start moving. So where are you going to start moving to?
Most of us when we accept the Lord have that high, because we have discovered the Love of Jesus. To accept the Lord, for at least a time we say, “I’m a sinner and I need you to save me.”
It’s a form of submitting. What we don’t realize is submitting is how we need to continue in our walk and relationship with Him.
So we get saved and then it’s back to ME again. Boy, am I glad I’m saved, well it’s time to go out and do the same things I’ve always done. It’s time to go blend back in with the crowd. What’s changed?
Should there be a change?
2 Corinthians 5:17 – 17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. KJV
Old things are passed away. That’s a change. Why do we need to change?
Psalms 94:11 – 11The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. KJV
Fallen man thinks about himself instead of the things of God.
So we need to die to that sinful part of ourselves.
Romans 6:1-7 – 1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
Romans 6:11 – 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
We need to die to our selfish wants, selfish desires, self, self, self, self.
The new creature is to be Christ with skin on. When we die to ourselves, He can come in and work through us. If that’s not happening then we need to study the New Testament and adhered to what it says. We are crucified with Christ. We need to become a new creation. Pray for the want to and the strength to do so.