@chaney3
I don't think it's possible for someone to change who they truly are just to satisfy what Jesus may want.
Paul said it best, when he said he cannot do what he wants to do.
This quote rings true:
"To thine own self be true".
Yes chaney, in
Romans 7 he made the case from his own experience that he could not fully do the good he wished, nor fully resist the evil that he did not wish. And he could not change.
Because he could not change he felt self condemned and wretch. That is most of chapter 7. But in chapter 8 He says the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has FREED him.
He knew how to switch on this
"law of the Spirit of life".
He knew how to activate that liberating and life changing power in the life of Jesus who had come to dwell in him.
He does not stay in that wretched condition of self condemnation and failure because he found a STRONGER PERSON - Christ Jesus - could live in him and save him from the body of death.
He learned how to tap into this stronger Person with a stronger
law of the Spirit of [divine] life. And he found liberation and transformation.
That is
Romans 8.