VISIBLE TRANSFORMATION

When one truly encounters Jesus Christ of Nazareth, they would be transformed and such a change would be visible to all. The apostles and their lives is a fine example. The early disciples who knew Jesus, were all simple people…some were fishermen, some tax collectors…and some others of dubious distinction…yet when they encountered Jesus Christ of Nazareth, their lives were transformed.

The transformation that the Bible talks about has a bearing on the way they thought, spoke and conducted themselves. Their lives were radically different from what they were before they met Jesus Christ.

The apostle Paul, writing to the Christians at Ephesus, says these words, which are relevant to us, as Christians and the disciples of Jesus – “But that is not the way you learned Christ!—assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” – Ephesians 4:20–24

Are our lives different, from what they were, before we met Christ? Are we walking on that path, that the LORD had put us on? Transformation, in other words is called, SANCTIFICATION. It is a continuous, and ongoing process. We need to keep on surrendering to the LORD Jesus, on a daily basis. The more we yield to the LORD, the more He would work on us, and shape us, into the image that He is working on. Even so, the LORD help us.