Are you changing?

 Are You Changing?

 

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 LORD your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul and so you may live!

DEUTERONOMY 30.6

 

This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.

COLOSSIANS 1.6

 

People can change a lot of things about themselves. They can change their hair colour, their names, and the people they spend time with. And there are some things they can’t change — certain physical characteristics, the families they came from, and their natural personality types. When it comes to changing our habits or ways of thinking or the ways we respond to things, sometimes we feel powerless. That’s just the way I am, we think. I’ll never change.

But we are not on our own when it comes to change. If we are connected to God and open to the ways he wants to work on us and in us, he will change us from the inside out. Then we won’t be stuck committing the same old sins and thinking the same destructive thoughts and feeling the same defeated feelings. Paul suggests that we are changed as we look at the face of Jesus. So if we want to change to be more like Jesus, we need to look toward him, think about him, and listen to him. This is the key to changing to become like him.