I just read a good article about transformation and want to pass on the essential point it made.
“America loves stories of “changed lives.” Andrew Carnegie the pauper becomes Carnegie the industrialist and philanthropist. Michael Jordan, cut from his junior high basketball team, rises to become “His Airness.” Bill Gates the computer nerd becomes Bill Gates, the world’s wealthiest man.
Then there’s Jared Fogle, who weighed 425 pounds until a diet of two low-fat sandwiches per day and a daily 1.5-mile walk helped him lose 245 pounds, shrink his waist from 60 inches to 34, and made him a national celebrity when he became Subway’s spokesperson. Changed lives all. Impressive changes. But is that the kind of transformation we’re called to seek?”
The transforming power of Christ in our life is very different. It is about becoming a new person in Christ, not a self-made person. The transformation we receive is supernatural and came at a very high cost – the shed blood of Christ.
“Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty” Zechariah 4:6b