Becoming Real

Becoming real . . . the Bible tells us that when we fall in love with Jesus we "strip ourselves of our former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life, and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion." Ephesians 4:22

I like what David Muyskens writes:

This new self is who we really are. We have a case of mistaken identity and work under the illusion that the old self is who we really are.

C. S. Lewis says:

The real Son of God is at your side. He is beginning to turn you into the same kind of thing as Himself. He is beginning, so to speak, to "inject" His kind of thought and life, His "zoe" (life) into you; beginning to turn the tin soldier into a live man. The part of you that does not like it is the part that is still tin. (Mere Christianity)

I can't improve on these two gentlemen, so I'll just say, it is challenging work, to become real!