Chain me up again

To relocate from one country to another is a significant change. Yet, to be a person who was dead and who is now alive, is to be a person who has experienced the most radical change. You change from a person who is being killed by sin, to a person who is killing sin. You are a person who didn't understand Jesus, yet now you can't resist Him. You used to love the darkness, now you are enthralled by the light. You were a person who couldn't appreciate Scripture, yet now, in the Word, you see the glory of Christ and you are becoming like Him as you soak in His Word. You are a person who has become dominated by this new life. People whose lives are dominated by homosexual sin are often called homosexuals. People whose lives are dominated by slavery to alcohol are often called alcoholics. But when God saves; a person who has been transformed in this way is so controlled and dominated by this new life, that he is called a Christian. He is a person to whom Christ is everything. It is however one thing to talk about this, yet it is another thing to have been changed in this way. It is such a radical change that once a person has been changed, it is an absurd idea that he would like to go back to what he was before. It is like a dead person being raised from the dead, and then asking if he can go back to his coffin. It is like a slave being set free from his grevious chains, asking to be locked up again.