What do you do to change when dishonesty has become a way of life, when it is just as easy for you to look someone in the eye and lie as it is to breathe and sleep? To the Corinthians, who knew something firsthand about dishonesty and deceit, Paul wrote, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17). In God's sight, conversion makes you a new person; yet the fact remains that the ongoing change in your life, the result of God's Holy Spirit working within, takes time. Conversion isn't an instant transformation from dishonesty to moral perfection.