Today people continue to believe they could have more faith in Jesus and His promises if they received some divine sign, maybe a visible miracle.
Possibly the most obvious miracles to us today are the changed lives of people in difficult life circumstances who through faith have been able to ascend above their problems by spiritually transforming themselves into new people.
Hope for the certainty of spiritual transformation became accessible to us beginning with the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem two millennia ago.
If I were to summarize my life learning’s with Jesus in 2008, they are:
One major purpose of my spiritual life is to affect human transformation in me and others, the potential for recovery of the human race.
The possibility of transformation is the very essence of human hope.
If we are not transformed, we may simply settle for being informed or conformed; pseudo-transformation which becomes judgmental, exhausting, and unchallenging (we never open our heart to love and joy).
There is an immense difference between training to do something and just trying to do something.
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but training hand in hand with Jesus.
Spiritual disciplines are to life what calisthenics are to a preparing for a game.
A disciplined person is someone who can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason with confidence.
The devotions on the right side of my blog are my disciplines and summarize who I am becoming in Jesus.
This in part, is what I celebrate this Christmas season.
Merry Christmas!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
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