Sometimes I think we should really walk around with a big sticker on our foreheads saying “under construction”.
It is God’s desire that we become transformed, each day a little more, to reflect Him, his image or better understood his character. Originally man was made in the image of God’s character but this all change when sin entered the world.
Praise God, that He loved us so much even whilst we were still sinners, not to leave us in our pitiful states but make a way through His son to renew our relationship with Him and renew our minds through the power of His word.
In the person of Jesus Christ we can see the outworking manifestation of God’s character, the humanness and power of God’s spirit in perfect harmony, how awesome to imagine that this is what we are being transformed into.
Where am I going with this........many of us Christians get caught up in being busy for God, or just busy doing “good” things, or none of the above, we are struggling along in the currents of life’s river. But God’s desire is relationship with us and that through our relationship with Him we begin to reflect His traits to the world we live in, our neighbours, parents, friends and work colleagues.
We know that Moses spent 40 years in the desert, Joseph 13 years as slave and prisoner and apostle Paul 14 years before going up to Jerusalem again. God used and still uses various situations and circumstances to mould us, to refine us, to prepare us, but many times due to our inability to see that it is God’s gracious hand upon us we don’t accept His correction, direction or teaching.
These days I have been learning more about God’s desire to have His love flow through me to others, where Matthew 5 vs 44 becomes a natural action as I walk with Him.
Matthew 5 vs44 "But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
Praise God! That He knows exactly our limitations and won’t destroy us in preparation but lets us run with footmen before we contend with horses, finishing the good work in us that He began.
It is God’s desire that we become transformed, each day a little more, to reflect Him, his image or better understood his character. Originally man was made in the image of God’s character but this all change when sin entered the world.
Praise God, that He loved us so much even whilst we were still sinners, not to leave us in our pitiful states but make a way through His son to renew our relationship with Him and renew our minds through the power of His word.
In the person of Jesus Christ we can see the outworking manifestation of God’s character, the humanness and power of God’s spirit in perfect harmony, how awesome to imagine that this is what we are being transformed into.
Where am I going with this........many of us Christians get caught up in being busy for God, or just busy doing “good” things, or none of the above, we are struggling along in the currents of life’s river. But God’s desire is relationship with us and that through our relationship with Him we begin to reflect His traits to the world we live in, our neighbours, parents, friends and work colleagues.
We know that Moses spent 40 years in the desert, Joseph 13 years as slave and prisoner and apostle Paul 14 years before going up to Jerusalem again. God used and still uses various situations and circumstances to mould us, to refine us, to prepare us, but many times due to our inability to see that it is God’s gracious hand upon us we don’t accept His correction, direction or teaching.
These days I have been learning more about God’s desire to have His love flow through me to others, where Matthew 5 vs 44 becomes a natural action as I walk with Him.
Matthew 5 vs44 "But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
Praise God! That He knows exactly our limitations and won’t destroy us in preparation but lets us run with footmen before we contend with horses, finishing the good work in us that He began.
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