Transforming our Genetic Makeup

If we could analyze the genetic makeup of our fingernails, a piece of our hair, and the lining of the inside of our mouths,  we would find the same genetic material in all three structures.  A micro-biologist once explained it this way:  if we take the genetic structure of our fingernails to be ABC, and then re-arrange the same material in a BCA pattern, we would have hair.  Then, if we could re-arrange the material again into a CBA pattern, we would have the lining of our mouths. 

Wow!  that information sort of blew me away.  The same Creator who can re-arrange molecules for different functions can re-arrange the cells of our bodies, minds, and souls so that what was once on a path of destruction and decay can become instruments of life-giving energy.  For the One who shifted the same genetic material into different forms, it is not difficult to change us in one moment from death to life.  All that is required is our permission and submission. The genetic material He first worked with was pliable and obedient to His command---our souls are less so, having been so long obedient and submissive to the prince of this world and the powers of darkness. 

We were sold into sin and made captives to it by those who came before us, who have handed down to us "an empty way of life," and in our innocence, we did not realize that there was another Way.  So we handed on our own genetic makeup to our own children. 

But the Resurrection of Jesus has given us a way out of our original patterns of thought and behavior.  By His new, life-giving Body, all of our molecules of mind, body, and soul can be re-arranged so that we now conform to His life-giving Person.  It's not difficult; He has already done all that is necessary and that we ourselves could not do.  Paul says, If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17) and also just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so let us bear the likeness of the man from heaven (I Cor.15:49).

We are no longer slaves to the powers of darkness if we allow the Christ to re-arrange our molecules so that we bear His likeness instead of the likeness of the old, unredeemed man.  Why do people persist in thinking the Christian life is a life of "toeing the line" instead of allowing ourselves to be transformed by the God of the universe?