My sinful desires and Holy Desires
“How can I be sure that I have been given new, holy desires?” And this is really a question of “How can I be sure I have been born again?” Because that’s what the new birth does; it gives us these new, God-centered, Christ-exalting, Spirit-empowered desires. And the other question is “How much desire for God and victory over contrary desires — sinful desires — is realistic or normative for the Christian life?” Let’s describe how the New Testament pictures the desires of the person who has been born again and the kind of battle this introduces into the person’s life. Goodbye, Darkness Before we’re born again — and I mean born again by the Spirit of God through the word of God — the Bible describes us as natural persons, meaning that we don’t have the Holy Spirit. And therefore, we do not have the spiritual ability to see the beauty of Christ and his gospel for what they really are, or the ability to feel them for what they really are — namely, precious. First Corinthians 2: