HOPE! - Transformation of the Heart

I believe that the Spirit works in the heart of the believer, convicting them of their sins and calling them to repentance.

I also believe that those who have been made gentle in Christ do not behave in the same way as those who do not have the Spirit – and they even behave differently than believers who do have that Spirit but who simply may have not yet been made fully gentle in Christ.

But this issue of gentleness is not simply an issue of behavior, it is an issue of the transformation of the heart.

Paul writes, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”

The believer who has been made gentle in Christ is a believer who not only has the Spirit of God living in them, but whose own spirit has been changed by the Holy Spirit. The love of God is overflowing from them because they have allowed God’s love to fill them completely.

This is why I believe that being made gentle in Christ is possible. It is not something that we do ourselves. It is the entire transformation of our own personal spirit by the love of God in the Holy Spirit.

God is love, and where God is… there is love.

So if God is within every aspect of a person – their heart, their soul, their mind, their strength – then the love of God will be present and evident in every aspect of that person. The love of God is gentle, and this is how Christians can be made gentle.

It is not anything that they have done. It is all by the grace of God. It is the grace of God that called out to us before we knew Him, it is His grace that causes some to not even remember a time when they did not believe, and it is His grace that fills us with His Spirit and allows us to make room enough for His love, and for Him Himself.