Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. That is not the way you learned Christ! For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:17-24, NRSV)
You must no longer live the way you use to live. What does that mean?
We need to live in the light and and be open and sensitive to those around us, not only looking out for our own needs, but more focused on the other than ourselves. We can not be deluded by our own lusts for self preservation and elevation, but sympathetic to the needs of the world around us. That is what Jesus did, and that is the new life we are called to.
So the beginning is here, follow Jesus and be more concerned with the other than you are with yourself!
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