REGENERATION: Radical Rebuild By Reformation!

How Do You Wish To Be Transformed!?! 

Will Icing On Ginger-Bread Suffice 

Aka New Hair-Do, Wardrobe, Eyeglasses

Table Etiquette And Language Lessons, And New Friends!?! 

How About An Attitude Adjustment 

As Can Only Be Accomplished By 

The Inward Working Of The Holy Spirit Of God 

With Your Total Cooperation!?! 

Beloved, 

To Accomplish A Transformation That 

Will See Us Arriving Safely In The Heavenly Land 

Requires A Gut Rehabilitation

A Very Painful, Uncomfortable

Unwanted But Necessary Strip Down

Rip Out

Scrape Off

Burn Off

Throw Out 

Radical Rebuild By Reformation! 

If You've Ever Cut Your Finger

Gotten A Stye In Your Eye

Broken A Bone

Gotten Burnt

Fallen On Gravel Or Cement

Gotten A Thorn Or Had A Sliver Of Wood

Glass Or Metal Enter Your Skin 

And

Have Endured The Revealing, Extraction, Cleaning

And 

Regenerative Process Required 

To Make You Whole, Fit ... Functional

You Know That Quick, Cheap, And Piece O'Cake 

Are Not Descriptions Thrown Around! 

The Lord Jesus Who Knows Us Each Individually 

And

Better Than We Will Ever Know Ourselves

Desires To Transform

Revive

And 

Reform Us To Render Us Ready 

And 

Able To Stand Before His Consuming Presence 

And 

Not Die! 

Just The Facts ...

Neither Buttercream Nor Royal "Icing" 

Will Cover The Rough Surface Of 

A Sinful Character 

Nor The Jagged Lines Carved Into Us 

By Walking Wild On Base Broadway! 

Be Encouraged ... 

He Who Calls Us To Be Transformed

Readies Us For 

And 

Accompanies Us In Our Transformation 

And

Has Already Footed The Big Bill For Our Bad Behavior! 

Jesus Christ The Righteous Paid For It All

So That All We Have To Do 

Is 

Accept The Service Of Sacrificial Love 

By Faith

With Cooperative Obedience

To Gain The Eternal Blessed And Beautiful Benefit Of 

The New Birth! 

Joy Comes In The Getting-Up Morning! 

Peace!