Methamorphosis

Growth is part of life, and change is part of growth. The pediatrician carefully examines our children to determine changes in weight, body size, and head circumference. Change through growth is a sign that everything is all right.

The same is true for our spiritual lives. God wants us to make spiritual progress, to grow. And this growth, which He wants to produce in our lives, always happens through change:

“But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head, Christ” (Eph. 4:15).

“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being transformed into His image from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor. 3:18).

Jesus prayed to the Father: “Make them more and more like You and obedient to the truth” (John 17:17). And “keep them in fellowship with You, so that they may be one with each other, just as We are one” (17:11).

God wants to produce in all our hearts a love and unity with Him and with one another that corresponds to the love and unity of the Trinity. This is where spiritual growth is needed. This is where God wants to bring about changes in our lives so that we may reach His goal.

Whenever God brings about change, it always begins on the inside and then becomes visible on the outside.

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