“Wow!” he says. “Beautiful…”
His antique toy looks new again…
He’s on one of those TV shows where you see the mess before…
And the beautiful transformation after.
A house that’s unlivable…
A collectible that’s broken and faded.
We watch as craftsmen work to bring new glory to something old…
All framed in tight shots so can’t see what’s really happening.
And then the camera pulls back…
And we see the transformation …
The moment the TV shows call “The Reveal” …
A moment always followed by a gasp of amazement…
“When I take this toy home everybody’s gonna want to play with it,” he says.
“But I’ll say, ‘No. Look. Don’t touch!’”
It had been a toy…
Now it was a museum piece…
Before and after…
We’re all hooked.
Even when it comes to souls.
We all want to see the soul that’s a mess…
The soul that looks lost until God steps in.
We all want to see the reveal…
God’s transformation …
Making it new and shiny…
We gasp in amazement.
“What a bright shiny soul,” we say.…
“Not perfect… but too good to get dirty.”
“Maybe we should preserve it for the day we meet God…”
Or not…
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely…but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” ― Hunter S. Thompson
God says….
Don’t sit on the sidelines…
Run the race…
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 1 Corinthians 9:24
Run…
Run for God…
Run hard…
Run with everything we’ve got.
…love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Matthew 22:37
4 thoughts on “God’s Transformation”
I was a alcoholic, spent all of my teenage life drinking. Eventually I tried to commit suicide. Injured my brain and spin. When I got out of the hospital, a old friend brought me to Christ. I still battled with Addiction since then but it’s Better now, thank you Jesus. I serve him, live for him, with the help of my awesome church. And I love it.
Thanks for sharing your story…along with you we all say…”Thank you, Jesus”!
Me as well 32 years dry today, and an not proud of this at all, why? For pride would turn my hide back to the drinking table, and I drank over problems I had to escape from them and not face therm. In this case of Drinking that was taken on for fourteen years prior to quitting, Was the crutch or what started this escape that eventually got me trapped in it through other problems that I had afterwards was my Sister died at 18, I was 14 when this happened to me.
At 27 God said to me inside I heard from my heart he gave me from belief I gave to him at age 12, he said I have become an Alcoholic over not accepting my Sister’s death.
I saw clear right then and there that this is where it all started in not accepting her as dead. I remembered when the Funeral was in place and there was an open casket to see her faced and know it was her. I turned away and ran from this place, not wanting to face this as reality, my emotions got the best of me, and where by this in the lead, and caused me to drink and not see clearly that this is why it took hold of me.
Not an Alcoholic at first, was fun t drink, felt good being drunk at least tipsy.
Then other troubles came up and so I took up more drinking to escape from these. Then as said overtime in these troubles I could not face I had to go back to where it started to get out of this problem
So that day at 27 I faced and accepted my Sister Sue is dead and no matter what this is a fact and so when faced that I lost all desire to drink and do drugs as well by then.
So hope this might help for you if you still are having troubles today over the drinking at all.
I still have other troubles here in this life, and thanking God presently that one of these is not Alcohol presently today. I was in service as well a Vietnam vet also and am still working on this one as well and if still drank over this I would be not here anymore I am sure
And not that I want to be here either, but for Me I rather be in God’s will for me to be here for now as Paul said to die is gain, yet he was to be here for a little while longer to tell of the glory of God all in all.
To be content in Spirit and truth and yet will not be in the flesh and blood body we are in, for that is not redeemed yet.
Howard, thanks for being so willing to share your story to help others.