Today I am a new creation, a believer and not a beggar.  Also today, in my devotional time I read that the new creation no longer has a sin nature within.  It was replaced with the nature of God through the Holy Spirit and Christ coming into my life when I accepted Him as my Lord and Savior.  If I had ever been taught that at some point in my life, it sure didn’t register.  I have always been so filled with my belief that something as pure as The Holy Spirit just couldn’t take residence in me.  Now God is taking all my old character defects, beliefs, lies of Satan, and replacing them with the truths of Himself and His Team:  Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit.

So many times when people have revelations in their lives like this they say something like:  “I just want to back up 40 years and do this all over again.”  Unless I could change all the first 22 years of my life, I would not want to ever go back.  What is strikingly different for me is my personal desire to live.  I have always enjoyed life from the standpoint of having moments of fun with people and rewarding times in nature with just nature, God and me.  But, the abuse of childhood left me wishing for human life to end so I could live for eternity without the haunts of it.  This is what has truly begun to change for me.  Most of the haunts are gone and I look forward to living life each day.  That is an amazing feeling I hope you have too.