You don’t become a new creation when you stop struggling with your flesh. You ARE a new creation in your spirit, that is why you may be struggling with a civil war on the inside, your spirit desiring one thing and your flesh another. Now you have the opportunity to practice living from a new reality, living in your spirit man.
That is the reason you are living in a flesh body, you are in school, learning how to trust the greater one in you, and learning to love Him with all your heart, and love others with the same love, in which you are loved, you are the beloved of God.
I know it is hard, but it gets easier when you learn how to walk in the Spirit, and then it becomes a delight, you do not want to live any other way.
Romans 6:11 reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The old you – with all its limitations, failures, and fragmentations – died with Christ. What rose with Him is the real you: your spirit which is righteous, holy, greatly loved, and completely accepted by the Father. This isn’t future tense – this is who you are right now. All we need to do is learn how to bring it down from above so that it is manifested on the earth.
Our heavenly Father doesn’t see the person you’re trying to become. He sees the person you already are in Christ and calls you to realize that new identity through partnering with Him in your sanctification.
Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
We are all in the sanctification process, otherwise you would already be transformed, and be one of the shinning ones walking on the earth. But that transformation is available to us if we willing to pay the price.
When old thoughts, old habits, or old reactions surface, remember: That’s not who you are anymore. That’s just an old program in your brain that is still running, but it has no power over your true identity.
1 Jn 4:4 He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
When you catch yourself thinking or acting from old patterns, pause and step back into your spirit. “That’s not who you are. You are a new creation in Christ. Ask the Lord to show you how to live from your new identity.
Your new identity isn’t a goal to reach – it’s a reality to live from.