Rushwavefrom the book Why I Love God
10. God's New Life Changed Me
As time progressed, the new life indwelling me manifested itself. The biblical term for this is sanctification, and it is a progressive work with experiential results. And those results involved numerous changes.
- My desires changed: my heart was to please God and obey Him in all things.
- My thoughts changed: my mind tended towards spiritual things like God’s promises and God Himself.
- My times of solitude changed: I found myself talking to God more and more often.
- My emotions changed: things I use to be indifferent about grieved me; things I use to think were funny made me feel awkward; and spiritual things I formerly had no interest in I now had a passion to learn.
- My relationships changed: I found the most fulfillment in being with others where the conversations focused on God.
- My family relations changed: I had a closer relationship and greater comradery with fellow believers than with my own flesh and blood siblings.
- The songs I related to changed: I found myself singing about God and His works from my heart, even when no one was around. And I sang not just because I enjoyed the tune, but because the words about God’s grace, power and forgiveness had deep, spiritual meaning to me.
- My awareness of what was true changed. God’s existence, Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, forgiveness, heaven, Jesus’ second coming, and the establishment of His kingdom; they were all real to me.
- My perspective of scripture changed. The Bible was God’s message, and I yearned to learn more of it. To me the word of God was alive.
With all these changes it was clear my entire life was now ordered around a Person I had never physically met, a forgiveness I had no tangible evidence of, and a resurrected Savior whom I had never seen or heard. There was an entirely new spiritual dimension to life, and it all centered around God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.
from the book Why I Love God
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