Good morning…
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are,” says Carl Yung, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.
‘Who we really are’ is established by our Creator long before the day of our birth. Each of us whispers in wonder the words of Psalm 139:13-16 (NLT).
“You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.”
In God’s time, in God’s way, in God’s watchful care, ‘who we really are’ is then born anew by the Spirit of our living LORD. Jesus says, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh [the physical is merely physical], and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be surprised that I have told you, ‘You must be born again [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified].’ The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit” (John 3:6-8, AMP).
Echos of yesterday’s post dance in my head. “Journey. Process. Transformation. We are already what we seek. We are where we long to arrive. In God. More awakening than accomplishment. More awareness than achievement.”
The privilege of a lifetime is to become ‘who we really are,’ to be fully what we seek, to settle more deeply where we long to arrive, at home in God who knits and births, who rebirths and transforms.
…Sue…
