Transformation literally means going beyond your form.
Wayne Dyer
Romans 12: 2
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
So this is the question then; if we are not to conform to this present world, its images and its ways, what mold are we to be poured into. The only form of God that we can glimpse at is through His Son, Jesus Christ, God in the flesh coming to us. During the small part of Christ’s life that we see in scripture, we can see the model into which our life must be remade.
Transformation though does not mean modification, and I’m afraid that many times that is what happens to some people that join the church. When you are genuinely saved you are completely and totally transformed from head to toe. Baptizing is an image of that change. You are buried with Christ, and you are raised again a completely and totally new creation. Sanctification is the process that follows that act.
We think so highly of ourselves that we are sure that God would like for us to keep something about our old self, but the fact is He doesn’t. This is why Paul tells us in 2 Cor 3:18, “We all, with unveiled faces, are reflecting the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.” The Holy Spirit (God within us) is leading us to metamorphosis everyday, towards a beauty that we cannot imagine…God’s Blessings.
Pastor William
Wayne Dyer
Romans 12: 2
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
So this is the question then; if we are not to conform to this present world, its images and its ways, what mold are we to be poured into. The only form of God that we can glimpse at is through His Son, Jesus Christ, God in the flesh coming to us. During the small part of Christ’s life that we see in scripture, we can see the model into which our life must be remade.
Transformation though does not mean modification, and I’m afraid that many times that is what happens to some people that join the church. When you are genuinely saved you are completely and totally transformed from head to toe. Baptizing is an image of that change. You are buried with Christ, and you are raised again a completely and totally new creation. Sanctification is the process that follows that act.
We think so highly of ourselves that we are sure that God would like for us to keep something about our old self, but the fact is He doesn’t. This is why Paul tells us in 2 Cor 3:18, “We all, with unveiled faces, are reflecting the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.” The Holy Spirit (God within us) is leading us to metamorphosis everyday, towards a beauty that we cannot imagine…God’s Blessings.
Pastor William
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