Trust and transformation


This past weekend at Dallas Church, one of our preaching team members David taught us through Luke chapter 7.  In his takeaway, he encouraged us to trust Jesus to be transformed.

It made me ponder the idea of transformation.  As a kid, I was into the Transformer toys.  I loved how the toys could be 2 different things: both vehicles and, with a few configuration changes, warrior robots. Amazing.

As Christ-followers, we are called into transformation by our faith in Jesus.  In choosing to follow Him, we adopt His ways and soak in more and more of His work and teachings so that we are, slowly but surely, made new.

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

-Romans 12:1-2 NLT

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