What is the difference between a T-Bone steak slowly cooked over the fire and one that is cooked in the microwave in 4 minutes?
Transformation takes time. We are transformed over time into the image of Christ.
Sometimes the changes the Holy Spirit makes in our live are instant and some take years to complete.
Billy Graham wrote that when we are saved, there is immediately peace between ourselves and God. It's an instant transformation in our relationship to God. But Graham notes that it takes much more time for that peace to permeate our lives in relation to other people and the world around us.
In order for God to be able to change us into what He wants us to be, we need to intentionally orient or arrange our lives in a manner that allows Him to do so.
Remember the metaphor of the sail boat? What can you intentionally do in your life to unfurl your sail to catch the wind of the Holy Spirit? You can't catch the wind if you don't hoist your sail?
Transformation takes time. We are transformed over time into the image of Christ.
Sometimes the changes the Holy Spirit makes in our live are instant and some take years to complete.
Billy Graham wrote that when we are saved, there is immediately peace between ourselves and God. It's an instant transformation in our relationship to God. But Graham notes that it takes much more time for that peace to permeate our lives in relation to other people and the world around us.
In order for God to be able to change us into what He wants us to be, we need to intentionally orient or arrange our lives in a manner that allows Him to do so.
Remember the metaphor of the sail boat? What can you intentionally do in your life to unfurl your sail to catch the wind of the Holy Spirit? You can't catch the wind if you don't hoist your sail?
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