When God remakes us in spiritual rebirth, he doesn\u2019t simply patch up our natural virtues. He remakes the whole person on the inside: \u201cPut on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness\u201d (Ephesians 4:24). See that your natural human life puts on the clothing that is in keeping with the new life God has planted in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The life God plants in us develops its own virtues\u2014not the virtues of Adam but the virtues of Jesus Christ. Watch how, after sanctification, God will wither up your confidence in your natural virtues, in any power you have, until you learn to draw your life from the reservoir of the resurrection life of Jesus. If you are going through a drying\u2013up experience just now, give thanks to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sign that God is at work in us is that he corrupts our confidence in our natural virtues, showing us that they are merely remnants, leftovers of what he originally created humans to be. They aren\u2019t promises of what we are going<\/i> to be. Still, we cling to the natural virtues, even as God is trying all the time to get us into contact with a life that can never be described in terms of natural virtues\u2014the life of Jesus Christ. It\u2019s the saddest thing to see people who, though they are in the service of God, are still depending on that which his grace never gave them, on virtues they possess merely by the accident of heredity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God doesn\u2019t build up our natural virtues and transfigure them, because our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants. No natural love, no natural patience, no natural purity can ever come up to his demands. But as we bring every part of our bodily life into harmony with the new life God has put into us, he will exhibit through us the virtues that are characteristic of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll my fountains are in you\u201d:<\/i> every virtue we possess is his alone.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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