Am I living a transformed life?

For if a man is in Christ, he becomes a new person altogether—the past is finished and gone, everything has become fresh and new. All this is God's doing, for he has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and he has made us agents of the reconciliation. God was in Christ personally reconciling the world to himself—not counting their sins against them—and has commissioned us with the message of reconciliation. We are now Christ's ambassadors, as though God were appealing directly to you through us. As his personal representatives, we say, "Make your peace with God." For God caused Christ, who himself knew nothing of sin, actually to be sin for our sakes so that in Christ we might be made good with the goodness of God. We look at it like this: if one died for all men, then, in a sense, they all died, and his purpose in dying for them is that their lives should now be no longer lived for themselves but for him who died and rose again for them.- 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, 15 (Phillips)

Authentic faith is evidenced as we live transformed lives through the power of Christ, or being "in Christ." The transformation is a result of the change of mind and heart through the power of the Holy Spirit, who enters our lives at the point of salvation, and performs the work of transforming us into Christ-likeness. Our being "in Christ" is eternally significant and provides us with the following assurances.

1. Security - The confidence in knowing that you are going to heaven, not by anything you have done or earned, but completely upon accepting Christ's death on the cross of Calvary as the only acceptable sacrifice for your sins.

Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory. - Romans 5:1-2 (NLT)

2. Acceptance - A realization that your citizenship is in heaven, your name is written in the Book of Life, as the debt of your sin has been paid in full by the only acceptable sacrifice, God's Son.

All who follow the leading of God's Spirit are God's own sons. Nor are you meant to relapse into the old slavish attitude of fear—you have been adopted into the very family circle of God, and you can say with a full heart, "Father, my Father." The Spirit himself endorses our inward conviction that we really are the children of God. Think what that means. If we are his children, we share his treasures, and all that Christ claims as his will belong to all of us as well! Yes, if we share in his suffering, we shall certainly share in his glory. - Romans 8:14 (Phillips)

3. Assurance - The peace that passes all understanding in knowing the Sovereign and Immutable God of all Creation holds you in His hand and will complete the work of salvation through sanctification until you see Him face to face.

And I am sure that God who began the good work within you will keep right on helping you grow in his grace until his task within you is finally finished on that day when Jesus Christ returns. 
- Philippians 1:6 (Living Bible)

4. Participation - As a new creation in Christ by His work of atonement for our sins, we now share in God's nature by the possession of His eternal life.

For as you know him better, he will give you, through his great power, everything you need for living a truly good life: he even shares his own glory and his own goodness with us! And by that same mighty power, he has given us all the other rich and wonderful blessings he promised; for instance, the promise to save us from the lust and rottenness all around us and to give us his own character. - 2 Peter 1:3-4 (Living Bible)

Do others see a transformed follower of Christ as they observe how I execute life?

Preach the Gospel at all times and, when necessary, use words. - St Francis of Assisi

What you do speaks so loudly that what you say I cannot hear.

Living for Jesus a life that is true,
Striving to please Him in all that I do;
Yielding allegiance, glad-hearted and free,
This is the pathway of blessing for me.

O Jesus, Lord, and Savior,
I give myself to Thee,
For Thou, in Thy atonement,
Didst give Thyself for me;
I own no other Master,
My heart shall be Thy throne,
My life I give, henceforth to live,
O Christ, for Thee alone. - Thomas Chisholm

Be Encouraged to yield your life fully to the Holy Spirit's leading. 

-Jeffrey Thornton