“I was made for God’s glory. The reason I am on the planet
is to bear the image of my Father. The Christian life isn’t an answer for blessings;
it’s an answer for transformation.
… And I can rest myself in the hand of the great potter so
he can make me with his creativity the masterpiece I was designed to be.” –Dan Mohler,
Becoming Love
I want so badly to look at people and see them the way God
designed them to be. I want to look at people through the lens of grace and
love, throwing away my judgmental flesh in order to put on truth. This is the
battle of my heart these days and my goodness it is such a challenge.
God, I thank you for the days when the not so pretty parts
of my heart are exposed. I thank you that you won’t leave me that way, but that
you love me enough to change me from the inside out. Help me to rest in your
hands and surrender what my flesh so badly wants to hold onto. Help me trust in
your wisdom and rid me of trying to whisper my own plans to you as you refine
me. And above all else, let my heart be tuned by your Spirit and not by this world.
“What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but
the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given
us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words
taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the
Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them
because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit
makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely
human judgments, for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:12-16
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