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!
