Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Its easy to excuse away our behavior by saying ‘that’s just the way I am.’
But if we are are made new in Jesus, then we are not who we used to be. We are like him.
By saying ‘that’s just the way I am’ we are resurrecting our old self and saying that Jesus in us, is not enough to kill off our old selves.
Jesus makes us new when we invite him into our lives, he gives us new life a new identity.
When we say we die to self, we are spiritually no longer that person and are given new life in Jesus and that new life is to be him.
So when we find our selves reverting back to our old ways and our old habits we don’t need to try to change, we need to realize that, that is not us anymore.
That’s why knowing Jesus is so important, because the more we know him the more we know our new selves, its how we find our identity in him.
