Life is interesting. At every age it is a challenge to grow, learn, adapt, and even transform. We are constantly becoming. . .more, less, or at least different than we were before.
This week I am struggling to know what to write. But all week Holy Spirit’s still small voice keeps saying, “Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
My Mom used to say that we are all becoming “more.” By that she meant, the longer we live, our true selves show themselves more easily.
Likewise, others have pointed out that the younger we are, the more we think the we have to impress people. While the older we become we realize that others are not really paying attention to us.
Either way, Abba wants us free to be ourselves, and to speak our minds.
(Is that always a good thing? How we respond to difficulties throughout our lives helps form who we are becoming. Galatians 5)
The process of becoming. . ., takes us over some mountains and through many valleys. These are all opportunities to choose what our “more, less, or just different,” will look like.
When we come to faith in Jesus, Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:16-17, that we become new creatures. We also learn to look at people differently:
“So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”
Our relationship with Jesus gives us the power and the opportunities to choose Christ likeness, over self-centeredness. Or perhaps self-protection is a better term.
The love of God through Jesus, offers healing for our bodies, souls, minds and spirits. When we allow Him to touch and heal our wounded places, are becoming. . . less wounded. . . more of who Abba always intended, and a better kind of different and we were before.
Abba, Your Word says your children are being continually transformed from glory to glory. We do not always perceive this transformation from our position of becoming. Thank you that you never give up on me or any of us. May I regularly make the opportunities to be still and know that You are God. I choose to make becoming. . . a lifelong pursuit. Amen
