New Year New Life
"So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image." 2 Corinthians 3:18
The first believers were ordinary men and women who became extraordinary by living out extraordinary lives not because of who they were but because something radical happened to them.
They were transformed.
This new year, we too can be transformed and live out new lives, not because of our new year's resolutions which no one can really carry out or because we want to be good people.
We, like the first believers can be transformed, once we meet God. And having received Him, His Spirit then comes and lives in us, speaking to us ever so gently, molding us, changing us from the inside out. Such is the life that has been transformed -- a life reborn. Reborn not of the flesh, not by our own abilities, but by and of the Spirit.
God is Spirit and those who follow Him lives by the spirit.
The first step to this transformation is this.
"Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him." 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 (MSG)
The first believers were ordinary men and women who became extraordinary by living out extraordinary lives not because of who they were but because something radical happened to them.
They were transformed.
This new year, we too can be transformed and live out new lives, not because of our new year's resolutions which no one can really carry out or because we want to be good people.
We, like the first believers can be transformed, once we meet God. And having received Him, His Spirit then comes and lives in us, speaking to us ever so gently, molding us, changing us from the inside out. Such is the life that has been transformed -- a life reborn. Reborn not of the flesh, not by our own abilities, but by and of the Spirit.
God is Spirit and those who follow Him lives by the spirit.
The first step to this transformation is this.
"Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him." 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 (MSG)
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