The Will Of God For Your Life

"This is the will of God, even your sanctification."  1 Thessalonians 4:3 

Whenever one repents and turns from all his/her sins and accepts Jesus as his/her personal Savior, the Holy Spirit creates in that person a CHANGE of heart and spirit, and gives him/her a NEW SPIRITUAL LIFE, and the POWER of SIN IS BROKEN, and the sinner is TRANSFORMED OUT OF DARKNESS into God's MARVELOUS LIGHT! 

And the LOVE OF GOD is shed abroad in his/her heart! He/she has become a NEW CREATURE in Christ Jesus our Lord! Holiness begins in the heart and life when one repents--but if the conversion or decision to serve the Lord is not deep, it won't be long until the devil returns and tries to tempt the new convert and lead him/her back to the "old life."

So after conversion, the CHRISTIAN MUST PRESS THRU to a FULL SURRENDER OF HIS WILL and of his LIFE and give ALL TO CHRIST to OBEY THE LORD FROM THE HEART! If he does not completely strive to please Christ in his daily life, he will find the "old man" will continually overcome him, and he will be defeated, living "up and down" -- sometimes on the mountain top of victory, the next day defeated, bemoaning himself for his failure to obey God. 

He will be crying as Paul did: "Who shall deliver me from this wretched state I am in? I have the will to do good, but evil is present with me." Too many Christians are SATISFIED with this kind of defeated life! 

Look! IS THIS this the COMPLETE SALVATION that Jesus came to bring??? GOD FORBID! Because Paul said: "We are MORE than conquerors THROUGH HIM that loved us" and "gave HIMSELF for us!" Romans 8:37, and "[He] is ABLE to KEEP YOU FROM FALLING!" Jude 24.