What if our weaknesses were really mismanaged strengths?

Lately, I have been curious about this principle of what we call human nature.  We say our human nature is to sin and is sinful correct? Yet, was that what God initially created humans to be? No! Originally, before the fall human nature wasn't to sin, human nature was to glorify God.  They walked and talked with God in the garden and honored God with their lives.

Then, the fall happened and life got tricky.  What was the original intent of human nature got corrupted, and mismanaged.  It would be like taking a nice and clean CD whose original intent was to promote the creator's music

and scratching it and ripping it until it couldn't succeed at what it was originally intended to do.  Yet is the old CD still there, yes it's just covered with scratches and holes.

So, I like to see our heart as that old battered up CD before Christ.  Yet, if we have accepted the gospel and have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, we are a new creation. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" 2 Coriththians 5:17   Yet, is this old thing that has gone the CD itself or the scratches?  Either way, Jesus has a provided a way for us to come back to our original intent to glorify God.  He has made a way for our CD to be read.  

Yet, a lot of us get trapped in our thinking.  We think we are humans, so therefore since our nature is to sin, we have to deal with certain weaknesses because of it.  Yet, human nature didn't begin as a sinful nature it began as a holy one and with the Lord's help we can begin acting like it.  

"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will." Romans 12:2

How do we not conform?  Is it all about trying to fight our sinful nature? No, it's about being more 

focused on transforming our mind.

So, just a thought but what if all of our weaknesses are just original strengths being misused? 

Let's take pride for example…Is it wrong to be proud of God and what He is made? No, of course not.

Yet we take this strength and make it a weakness when we our proud of ourselves and begin to think that it is all about us, instead of all about God. 

Let's take selfishness for example..Is it wrong to love how God made you to be? No, of course not.  He tells us to love others as we love ourselves. Wouldn't it be kinda of insulting to God if we didn't love who He made us to be?  Yet, this becomes mismanaged when we start seeing ourselves as the only one to love and forget to realize since God made everyone we should love how everyone is made and treat them respectfully.

We have started using the qualities God has given us to worship God, instead to worship ourselves. 

So… What if we lived with this kinda of thinking? Instead of constantly focused on our weaknesses and just getting blinded with trying hard to fix them all the time, we could start giving our weaknesses to God and asking Him to take those mismanaged strengths and show us how to manage it better.  

Am I trying to glorify human nature and say that we don't really have problems? No, human nature has become corrupted but all I'm trying to say is as a Christian we don't have to be defined by it.  

As a Christian, we have God's divine help to help lead us back to what original nature was designed and destined to be.  So, let's stop telling ourselves that we sin because of our nature, because in Christ we have a brand new nature.  Instead lets stop defining ourselves by our weaknesses and allow God to  help us stop mismanaging our strengths, so we can live how God originally designed us to live, for the glory of God.