Transforming Love

“And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever.”

John 8:35

                One word: Transformation. A thorough or dramatic change from one form to another. Who is better at this than God? He has the ability to transform nothing into, well, everything! And to think that He did it all with just His word!

                Yesterday I sat on a frozen lake and looked up at mountains covered in snow and trees. I watched the moving clouds casting shadows on the landscape while the sun played peek-a-boo through the low hanging mist. It was breath-taking. The same God who made the mountains out of nothing also made the intricacy and complexity of the human brain. Weighing in at only 3 pounds, it contains 100 billion  neurons and is capable of holding enough information to fill 20 million volumes of books! And that only scratches the surface.

                But the greatest, most radical work of transformation that God accomplishes is of a spiritual nature: sinner to saint, slave to son, servant to friend.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creation; old thins have passed away; behold all things have become new.”

2 Corinthians 5:17

                Only the God who spoke the world into existence could transform a heart as dead and darkened as mine, into something alive and beautiful. He didn’t just renovate or remodel. He did something completely new and different. It was a total transformation from caterpillar to butterfly.

                I have been and continue to be the recipient of an unbelievable amount of grace. How can I ever express the gratitude and wonder of what the Lord has done in me? The only thing I can think of is my life, and that is no where near enough.

“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light, who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.”

1 Peter 2:9-10

Application: Today I will spend ½ hour praising God for His transforming work in my life.