A New You
“[W]hen He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.
John 16:12-14, NKJV
The Holy Spirit transforms your view of yourself and the world around you.
As the Holy Spirit moves through your life, He builds you up by speaking to you. He is edifying you. Revealing you to you overtime and by doing so building up your knowledge and understanding of your worth. When we accept less than what we deserve in terms of our relationships, environments, the way we portray ourselves, how we speak to ourselves or let others speak to us, and the way we treat other people, it doesn’t just signify a lack of self-worth but a lack of knowledge about who we are.
As God builds you into who He says you are, the Holy Spirit makes you aware of your worth. It is this worth that allows you to stop engaging in relationships, places and things that don’t highlight that worth. There’s a subtle shift that happens within you. And the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life heightens your ability to see. Suddenly, the environments that you used to blindly enjoy being in, you start to realize you can’t grow in. You begin to recognize where relationships don’t pour into this new version of you or where certain relationships were only held up by bondage to things you no longer participate in. Naturally, you begin to want your environment to reflect what God has been saying about you.
In the same way, it is the empowerment of the Holy Spirit that gives you the strength and the courage to forgive people, to love people better, to continuously extend grace to others, to lay down your ‘right’ or your view and extend more love instead. Left to just me, my patience can be very thin at times. Left to just me, there’s a limit to what I can forgive. Left to just me, there are certain disappointments and let downs that I honestly don’t know how to extend grace to even if I wanted to. But it is the Holy Spirit in me that gives me the strength and the courage to do these things.
When the Holy Spirit reveals truth to you and you begin to take off characteristics that are less than worthy, and take on characteristics that are more like Jesus, you are walking out your identity in Christ. Naturally, you begin to have better relationships, invite more grace-giving environments, and extend more love while receiving it in other ways.