As believers, especially in western society, we tend to act and operate out of a broken paradigm with regard to our faith and trust in Jesus Christ. We place our emphasis on what we know about God over getting to know God personally. We have substituted the warm, personal relationship He designed us for with cold-blooded religion.

Head knowledge may help us modify our outward behavior, but it has no ability to transform or mold us into the new man or new creation that we are in Christ. (2 Corinthians 5: 17). Only direct experience and encounter with God can transform and raise you up to the level He wants for you.

To be a new creation and abide in Christ, it is not enough to have knowledge of Him. It is to be in intimate relationship with Him. Only in direct relationship can you learn to trust Him completely.

As believers, we tend to think that our responsibility is to reform ourselves, but the old man is dead in Christ. The old that has passed away, is no more than a vestiges and echo of who you were. When you try and reform yourself, you are only animating a rotten corpse. You’re only turning yourself into a zombie.

Even as far back in time as Isaiah, he recognized that every righteous act we might do was nothing more filthy rags, bloody polluted menstruous cloths. There is nothing of the old worth saving or holding onto. That is why being in Christ is so important. In Him we are an entirely new creation, the old is gone. ( 2 Corinthians 5:17)

Don’t live as a zombie. Stop trying to reform your old self and let it die. Step into the new creation you are in Christ. And if you aren’t sure how, pray and ask the Lord to guide you directly. He will light your path, give you eyes to see, and be your strength.