Put on Christ’s nature

Chinedu did not just stop being bad, he started being good. He could now put off his old bad nature and put on his new good nature because he now had the power to do so. Before he became a believer, he had tried to change and become a good husband to his loving wife, but he found that he couldn’t. He just did not have the power, he had been a bad boy all his life. But after he believed in the Lord Jesus and was being discipled, he found the power to walk in the divine nature and be a good man and husband.

Many Christians don’t realize how much they have the power to put on their new righteous nature. Many fail because they try to do this without first putting off the old nature of unrighteousness (see Ephesians 4:22). They try to be good without calling sin what it is (confessing their sins and renouncing them). They try to justify what they know is a sin.

You cannot be a person of integrity if you still tell lies. You have to first decide to stop telling lies (putting off the old nature), and now decide to start walking in your new nature of truth which you have received from God. You cannot truly start walking in mountain-moving faith if you don’t first put off the old nature of fear and unbelief. You put off the old nature by confessing and renouncing its works before the Lord. Don’t justify what you know is of the sinful Adamic nature. Call it out, repent of it, and fight it with all you’ve got.

Go into today knowing that you now have the power to put off the sinful, disobedient nature and put on the nature of righteousness and Holiness that you have received from God. Ask the Lord to help you do this.
—Abraham Damilola Arigi