“BY REASON OF USE”

“Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first among many believers.”

Romans 8:29 (Good News Translation)

 

Reading the verse above would you agree that God wants us to be like Jesus?

If you agree, then the question becomes: How does this happen?

How are we taken from where we are (Assuming most of us have a

ways to go to look like Jesus) to where we need to be?

How does God accomplish the work of conforming us to the image of His son?

Well, He uses tests, trials, purging, purifying, stretching, stripping away, molding and shaping by the Holy Spirit using the circumstances of our lives.

He will work with the triumphs and the tragedies; the mountaintop and the valley experiences; the routines and the extremes of life. 

All of these things can and are used by God to fashion us after His Son.

Let me ask you a few questions the Lord asked me as I was praying a few weeks back.

Answering these questions will be the focus of our blog this week.

How can we surrender to the cleansing, purifying and maturing work of the

Holy Spirit if we don’t recognize it?

How can we recognize it without revelation?

How can we receive revelation if our spiritual eyes,

ears and hearts are dull to the things of God?

The good news for us is that -

Eyes that see, can see better!

Ears that hear, can hear better!

A heart that feels the presence of God can be made more

aware of that presence and more tender in His presence.

The life, the walk, the journey we have from God should cause us to grow and mature. Speaking more specifically – our ability to both see and hear spiritually, our spiritual understanding, if you will, can also grow and mature.