Today’s Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.”

One of the best descriptions of this initial act of God in sanctification is found in Ezekiel 36:26-27 where God makes this gracious promise: “and I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.”

Note the changes God brings about in our inner being when he saves us. He gives us a new heart and puts a new spirit within us—a spirit that loves righteousness and hates sin. He puts his own Spirit within us and causes us to follow his decrees and obey his law. God gives us a growing desire to obey him. We no longer have an aversion to the commands of God, even though we may not always obey them. Instead of being irksome to us, they have now become agreeable to us.

David said in Psalm 40:8, “I delight to do your will, o my God.” Why did David have this delight? It was because, as the remainder of the verse says, “your law is within my heart.” David found a law written in his own heart corresponding to the law written in God’s Word. There was an agreeableness between the spiritual nature within him and the objective law of God external to him.

It’s that way with a person who’s a new creation in Christ. There’s a basic though imperfect correspondence between the law written in a believer’s heart and the law written in Scripture. (Excerpt taken from Transforming Grace)

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