the grace of God

"No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother." 1 John 3:6-10

I am continually amazed at how clear Scripture is, yet I somehow couldn't see it's truth until so recently. How do we convince ourselves that we can continue living our life as we did before Christ was in us, when the Bible is so clear that we cannot? That if we do, our faith isn't real. I am slapped in the face with this absolute truth over and over again, every time I open the Bible. And every time I see it I am shocked all over again at my own blindness. I know how incapable I was of seeing this myself. Which proves as evidence that the meaning of God's words are hidden to us unless He reveals their meaning. And the truth that no man can come to God unless God chooses him, is ever so real to me. This is the true grace of God.

As Jesus said:

"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him..." John 6:44.

And:

"...No one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him" John 6:65.