Transformation

Have you received the transformation that comes from knowing Christ?  When we surrender our lives and will unto Christ, He begins a work in us that causes transforming power to change us from who we were to a new creature in Christ.  2 Corinthians 5: 17 tells us, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”  When we look at our lives has the transforming power of the Lord changed us, or are we still who we were when we came to know Him?  Has our attitudes changed?  Has our love for Him changed?  As we look at our lives, the things we use to cling to should be gone or in the process of leaving.  Our attitudes, desires and thoughts should be changing daily, and our love for the Lord should be growing daily.  The Lord tells us in Psalm 64:8 that He is the Potter and we are the clay.  The Lord takes the vessel in which we live in and breaks it and molds it until we are conformed into His image.  During this transformation process of making our vessel over we go through many changes and are placed in the fire, which makes us stronger in the Lord.  We do not like the breaking and molding process because it hurts.  For a while, we think this is good no more fire, I finally came through that being a much stronger vessel.  Then before we know it, another time of breaking and molding is beginning and we are back in the fire again.  Thank God for the transforming process because during this time I am being cleansed from things in my life that are not pleasing to the Lord. Some of these things the Lord will use in my life to minister to others because I will have the experience and testimony of how the Lord has brought me through.  As a puzzle is fitly put together, so am I when the Lord completes His transforming power in my life.  Once the puzzle is put together, we take it apart and place it in the box so we can put it together again.  Our lives are transformed continually when Christ begins a new work.  We are broken and taken apart to be put back together until we meet him in our heavenly home.   Thank God for His transforming power in my life that continues to change me and mold me into His image and rids me of self.