Christianity is not just another religion. It is not one of the many means man has devised to bring himself closer to God. Biblical Christianity is a way of a Father with His family. It originated with the Father, and it has a transforming effect on His children. When one gets born-again of God he gets the very life of God in him. This holy spirit we receive as His gift makes us very different people. We are not the same. We are bought with a price and belong to Him.

  When we were born again we were made new in Christ. The challenge we now face is putting on in our minds what was created in us in righteousness and true holiness. Our spirits are perfect, and we transform our minds, our souls, by believing and appropriating what God has done for us, in and through Christ Jesus. This we find out from God’s Word.

  We change our minds, our will, and our emotions by conforming them to the image of God in Christ in us. From God’s Word we learn how we are to think and reason. From God’s Word we learn to resolve to do what God asks of us. From God’s Word we learn how to use our emotions to emote us. We act on the Word and then our emotions assist us and spur us on, to where we want to go.

  We change our minds, as we behold the glory of the Lord through eyes of believing. We claim who we are and what we are as we clearly see from His Word what He has made us to be in Christ Jesus. We are not earthbound any longer. We are seated in the heavenlies, and our lives are hid with Christ in God.

  We are sustained not by our intellect or by our will. We are sustained from the inside from the spirit of God that shapes who I am and what I can do. I am not able of myself to do anything as of myself, but I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. God infuses me with the strength I need to live for Him, as I reckon myself alive in Christ.

  God’s Word divides and allows us to distinguish between soul and spirit… between what originates in our soul, our mind, and what comes from the new creation within.

   Our spirits are perfect and we can renew our minds to demonstrate what we have on the inside. If we want our “souls saved...” If we want our “minds renewed…” If we want our “lives transformed” we must engraft or implant His Word. It has to take root and grow. It is not like cut flowers whose beauty endures but for a short while. It is more like a transplanted, vibrant growing vine sustained by the life within.

  God energizes the power within us as we operate His gift. He works within us to will and to do of His good pleasure. When His good pleasure becomes our good pleasure we have accomplished some of that engrafting.

  God has made you different from how you were before. That’s why He calls it a new man. Reckon the old man dead. Dare to be different. Let the Word of God save your soul as you engraft it into our hearts and minds. We should live our lives as children of the Most High God, because we know Him intimately as our lovingly heavenly Father.