Transformation

Transformation



TODAY'S VERSE "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we - are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. II Corinthians 3:17-18 (NIV)

TODAY'S THOUGHT God is in the transforming business. I have seen it over and over again. God transformed Joseph's situation. Joseph told his brothers, decades after they sold him to slave traders, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good." Terry Wardle, in his book "Wounded," writes about the transforming process he went through with the Holy Spirit, "I have experienced the healing hand of God, times of sweet intimate communion, and hard days when He seemed silent and uninvolved. - But of this I am sure: God has used these events to transform my life! - I can testify without hesitation that it is true - in God's hands the object of one's greatest pain does become the source of one's greatest blessing." There is freedom in Christ and He desires to transform you and I more and more into His likeness. Today bring your cares, burdens, and situations to Him and let Him begin to transform them.



The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust."

... T. S. Eliot, Choruses from "The Rock"



TODAY'S PRAYER Dear Holy Spirit, I ask that You transform my bondage into Your freedom. Transform my pain into Your blessing. Transform my life into Your likeness. In Jesus' name. AMEN