Have you ever looked in the mirror and realized that something has got to change? "I need to get a haircut." "It's time to get serious about losing some weight!" "This outfit is not flattering on me at all!" We can choose to respond to what we see in the mirror by making the needed changes or we may choose to respond by avoiding the mirror and the truth it reveals to us.
God's Word is the mirror that God has given us to show us the areas in our life where change is needed. Similarly to the way we may respond to the mirror that hangs in our home, we can choose to respond to God's Word by making the needed changes or by avoiding God's Word and the conviction that it brings into our lives.
When I was a young girl there was a song we used to sing that went like this, "To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus, all I ask, is to be like Him." The more we grow and mature in Christ, allowing Him to show us what needs to be changed in our lives and then letting Him help us to change, the more we become like Him. Amazing things will happen if we dare to pray, "Lord, change me" and then yield and surrender to God as He begins to do so. (Join me for the rest of this post on Sunday, September 22nd at Woman to Woman Ministries, where each Sunday I share a bit of Sunday Soul Food!)
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Yielding and Surrendering. I feel that is a stumbling block at times for me with my human stubbornness. I need to let go and let God so many times.
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