There is the way that we previously lived and there is the way we should now live. Transforming grace brings real change. Repentance is to turn from an old way of living to a new way of living; it is to put the old life behind you. There is a false thinking that excuses living the old way in the present as unavoidable because of our “humanness”. Jesus shows humans how to be truly human. Grace is the real helping energy that He gives us, by His Spirit, to live in a new way. The ultimate new way to put all the “formerly” behind us and to walk in Christlikeness by the sanctifying enabling grace of the Spirit. Yield your whole self to it. The Spirit in you makes it possible.
“In which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient” Ephesians 2:2 (NIV).
