Galatians 5 & 6

Father, I see that I become estranged from faith in Christ if I begin to try to “be saved by my good works” or by keeping the details of some group’s religious laws. For in Christ Jesus, trying to “earn” your kingdom through good works of my flesh avails nothing.

What is important to you in your provision of salvation is becoming a new creation. True salvation comes to each of us who is yours, Father, by being born from above.

Your true salvation is a sovereign, supernatural action of your Holy Spirit moving in each of the people of your choice and changing their heart. It is Christ in me by the actual presence of your person through the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Now there are two persons in me, my old nature and the new nature who is Christ Jesus. I now know to sow to the new nature and to reckon the old fleshy nature dead. As I do that, my life is transformed from selfish and stubborn to loving and faith filled.