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John Barnett - "Do you ever feel trapped by your own toxic patterns—your persistent bad attitudes, old habits, or a lingering spiritual numbness that religious routines alone cannot seem to cure?"
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AWAKENING FROM THE HYPNOSIS OF TIME - by John Barnett Do you ever find yourself caught in the quiet illusion that you have plenty of tim...
This is a powerful and encouraging teaching from Dr. John Barnett because it reminds us that no believer is permanently trapped by his past, upbringing, temperament, habits, or former way of life.
ReplyDeleteGod does not merely want to improve the old person—He wants the life and character of Jesus Christ to be increasingly displayed through us. As Paul declared, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).
What Dr. Barnett calls a “personality transplant” is the transforming work of the Holy Spirit. As we surrender our minds, bodies, desires, words, and reactions to Christ, the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control—begins to replace the old patterns of the flesh.
This is not an instant promise that every struggle will disappear. Neither is it a self-help program in which we remake ourselves through determination. It is the lifelong work of sanctification as we repeatedly say no to sin, yield ourselves to God, renew our minds through His Word, and allow Christ to live through us.
Perhaps you have said, “That is simply the way I am.” But the wonderful message of the gospel is that you do not have to remain the person you once were. In Christ, the new you really is possible—not through your own strength, but through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit.
The question is not merely, “What kind of personality do I have?” The more important question is, “How much of the personality of Jesus Christ can others see developing in me?”