Colossians 3: new life

3-4 Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life. When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you’ll show up, too—the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ.

My old life, centered in me, is dead. My new life is becoming more and more like Jesus. However, this transformation is not passive, through magic; and it is not also based on my own efforts, legalistic. It is a transformation that begins in the mind, in believing that Jesus is in me.