Animals are interesting to watch. A squirrel running up a tree and then jumping from branch to branch and tree to tree without touching the ground is entertaining. Why do they do that? Why do they like to eat nuts for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Why don’t they run through the forest like a deer? The answer is simple. It’s because he’s a squirrel. He cannot act like a deer because he isn’t one.
In the same way a person who has received the free gift of eternal life and the righteousness of Jesus Christ is a new person. He is not what he used to be. II Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” He now walks and lives and does what is right because of the complete change that took place in his life when the righteousness of Christ came upon him. He now has the righteousness, peace and joy of the Lord.
This is being taken out of the kingdom of darkness and brought into the kingdom of light. It is a transformation out of Satan’s kingdom into God’s kingdom. We read of this in Colossians 1. We now follow the Good Shepherd because our heart has been transformed so that we desire to follow Him. Many profess to be Christians but it can be seen by their lives that they are following the kingdom of darkness. Jesus said we will know them by their fruit. Our lives declare who we are.
Let There Be Life 