Living for Christ

The service of the Lord does not only include implicit obedience, but also a willingness to put aside our sinful desires, and to surrender completely to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
The transformation of our lives by the Holy Spirit, which Paul calls a renewal of the mind, is the real beginning of life, but foreign to pagan philosophers.
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us. ( Rom 12;1; Eph 4:3; Gal 2:20) [John Calvin]