“[Anyone] is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17,ESV)
From
C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity:
“Even
the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam – he is only
nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own
efforts. And that has practical consequences. As long as the natural life is in
your body, it will do a lot towards repairing that body. Cut it, and up to a
point it will heal, as a dead body would not. A live body is not one that never
gets hurt, but one that can to some extent repair itself.
In the same way a Christian is
not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick
himself up and begin over again after each stumble – because the Christ-life is
inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repent (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ
Himself carried out.
That
is why the Christian is in a different position from other people who are
trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or –
if they think there is not – at least they hope to deserve approval from good
men.
But the Christian think any
good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will
love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves
us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is
bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.”
THINK BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.
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