Good morning…
“Good morning Sue – we are on the same wavelength,” she wrote after yesterday’s post, Uncertain. Unsettled. Ungrounded. “I read this a few days ago and was reminded of it as I read your reflection – XO.”
“Are our needs important to God? Yes. But the true purpose of prayer is to commune with the God of our souls, to be enclosed with Him, adoring Him, and conformed to His likeness. Paul said, ‘Looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, we are being transformed into the same image’ (2 Cor. 3:18). As you sit with the Lord, fully focused on His person, you’ll start to resemble Him in your thoughts and actions and His glory will begin to shine on your countenance. The true purpose of your prayer time is to become like Christ.” – Dr Charles Stanley
The Scripture above reads like this in The VOICE translation: Now all of us, with our faces unveiled, reflect the glory of the Lord as if we are mirrors; and so we are being transformed, metamorphosed, into His same image from one radiance of glory to another, just as the Spirit of the Lord accomplishes it (2 Corinthians 3:18).
The Merriam-Webster dictionary tells us that to be metamorphosed is to be changed into a different form, especially by supernatural means, to be strikingly transformed in appearance or character. The true purpose of our prayer time is to become like Christ, shining and radiant. Focusing fully on the person of Jesus, we begin to mirror his image. Communing intimately with God, we start to resemble Christ in our thoughts, our actions, and our countenance. The Spirit of the Lord accomplishes this metamorphosis as we continue to enclose ourselves with the God of our souls.
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering . . . fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out (Romans 12:2, MSG).
…Sue…
