“But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.” Let’s see what that means and how it happens. Then how can we live a life that expresses God? God’s way is to give us His divine life, and for us to undergo an organic change by His life operating in us. God knows that we can’t meet the standard in His Word on our own. That’s because the monkey doesn’t have the life of a human. What you see is mere learned behavior, not a genuine expression of a human.
Simply trying to conform to the words we read in the Bible is like a monkey imitating the actions of a human being. It’s understandable to think that transformation for Christians means we improve ourselves or our behavior so we appear more “Christ-like.”īut the biblical meaning of transformation has nothing to do with our outward behavior or self-improvement.
The house or person undergoes a major change and ends up looking different. People use the word transformation to talk about the remodeling of a house, or when someone gets a makeover. The dictionary definition of transformationįirst, let’s look at how the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines transformation: “A complete or major change in someone or something’s appearance, form.” In this post, we’ll look at what transformation is according to the Word of God. In fact, the Bible speaks of something called transformation. God also wants us to change, but not the way we might think. For example, our lack of love for people, our impatience, or our reaction in certain situations all highlight our need to have a change. But when we compare our daily life to those passages, we can’t help but notice our shortcomings. The vast quantities of books on self-improvement available today target our desire to be different or improve in some way.Īnd when we read verses in the New Testament concerning how believers should live and conduct themselves, we want to live that way. We all have things we’d like to change about ourselves.
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