AMY TURNER

The Bible tells us in Ephesians 4:24 that we are called to live as a new person, created to reflect God’s own holiness and goodness. This is not something we can achieve on our own. God has made us right with Him through Jesus, and our new self is His work, given to us through grace.

But this new life is not passive. We are invited to take part in it every day. God commands us to live in the way He has shaped us, and this involves active choices. We grow in our new life by the decisions we make, the desires we follow, the habits we develop, and the obedience we offer to God. Even when we fail, returning to God with a repentant heart is part of living in this newness.

Every step in this journey, every effort to live rightly, comes from God’s grace.

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created it

Colossians 3:10