New Covenant life is life according to the Spirit. It is a way of life where the just live by faith.

Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold the proud, his soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.

Romans 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

Galatians 3:11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”

Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”

In the New Covenant, things dramatically changed from what they had been under the Old Covenant of Law. Under the Old Covenant of Law people were given rules to live by. If they could avoid breaking any of those rules, they would be blessed. If they violated even one of those rules, they would be cursed.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the

book of the law, to do them.”

Under the New Covenant, life with God is done by having the Holy Spirit as our guide and comforter who leads us according to the will of God and reveals Jesus to us in an ever-increasing way.

Galatians 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

Galatians 3:12 Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

A life lived according to the Spirit is a life lived by faith in the Son of God. Confidence doesn’t come from law-based obedience but rather from relationship-based surrender that is born of faith. It is a faith that flows and grows by means of the Holy Spirit’s revelation. It is a very relational faith indeed.

True New Covenant faith-based obedience will never outpace your relationship understanding and experience with Jesus. The closer you are to Him, the greater your surrender will be to His ways. This surrender transforms you into His image and leads you into greater adventures with Him. It’s a surrender that moves you to rely even more upon the Holy Spirit for help.

You can never really know and experience all that you were created for until you learn to lose yourself in Christ. Losing yourself in Him leads you to humble yourself and rely on the Holy Spirit, just as He humbled Himself, became a man, and relied fully on the Holy Spirit.

You are never more like Jesus than when you humbly and fully rely on the help of the Holy Spirit to know and do according to the Father’s will in your daily life.