A great reminder from C.S. Lewis. Jesus living in you will not let you remain faithfully committed to sin and rebellion. The life of Christ does not produce immediate perfection, though it initiates the process of being perfected - a process that brings about ongoing repentance and continual transformation in light of His infinite perfections.
"A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but one that can some extent repair itself. In the same way a Christian is not a man who can never go wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble - because the Christ-life is inside him repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (to some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ himself carried out.
That is why the Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good to please God if there is one or - if they think there is not - at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good but that God will make us good because He loves us, just as a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it" (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 64).
May you be brought to death so that Christ might live in you and through.
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