I believe in the new birth. I believe in a moment of change. But I also know that all the changing that needs to happen in our lives does not happen in that first moment. We have been converted, and we are being converted. Grace is drawing us to change things in our life, break old habits, and add some new ones. Ongoing repentance is the path to that. Sanctification is the process. Ways of thinking are deeply entrenched as was the racism of Peter in Galatians 2:11ff. His behavior needed to be converted to Christian teaching. He believed it but was not yet practicing it.
Lord, I am so thankful that You are at work in my life, still shaping, still changing. Keep sanctifying me by Your truth for Your word is truth. Help me to become what You dream for me, oh Father.
