To use a Charles Spurgeon analogy, if you put on one side of a room a steak dinner, with all of the fixings, from the best chef in Texas, and on the other side, a pig trough, filled with pig slop. If you released a pig in that room, every single time he would go to the pig trough.
Why? Because he's a pig. It's what pigs do.
Now, if the pig was supernaturally transformed into a human being, he would not want to eat from the pig trough any more, he can't even get close to the pig slop without vomiting, and so he'd choose the steak dinner.
Why? Because he's a human now. He's not a pig anymore.
If you are true believer, then that analogy has just described your conversion. When God supernaturally changed your will and desires from a sin loving and righteous hating pig, to a sin hating and righteous loving human.
Believers are not perfect, so every once in a while, the Christian may forget that he's no longer a pig, and go to eat from the pig trough. But as soon as he does, he'll want to vomit, and if anyone sees him eating from the pig trough, he's ashamed.
Why? Because he's not a pig anymore. Humans do not eat from pig troughs.
Now to develop the analogy further:
If someone claims they are a Christian, but they have little or no appetite for righteousness, and would rather live in sin, i.e. they have not much interest in going to the steak dinner, but would rather eat from the pig trough, then it's evident they're probably still a pig, as the evidence is showing their will and desires have not been changed by God, but rather that they are unregenerate and unconverted.
As Jesus said "Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits." Mt 7:19-20
In others words don't pretend you're a Christian when your life is marked by a rebellion to God's will.
Being a bit of a porker most of my life, I praise God I'm no longer a pig.
Lewis
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