You Don’t Have to Become What You Already Are
here’s the question (or challenge, or annoyingly repetitive discussion): who are you becoming?
i know, i know. it’s really only been a day since we (and by “we” i mostly mean myself) started even thinking about who we are and who we’re becoming. with that in mind i thought it would be fitting to remind us who God says we are.
obviously, there is a process in which we must decide who it is we are becoming and who it is we want to become. this is personal. it’s for you and me to decide… on our own, in the scary and secluded places of our heart.
but, and that’s a “big but” (even it only appears regular size), when we are in step with Jesus there is something different about who we ARE. this greatly enhances our journey of becoming. if we have actually placed our lives in the hands of God, no matter where we find ourselves in the whole “He becomes greater, i become less” battle, then God has some specific things to say about who we are in Him.
here’s what i find encouraging on a life-changing level:
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:10 NLT)
did you catch that? we ARE (not becoming) God’s masterpiece. you are a freaking MASTERPIECE. and not like a mona lisa level masterpiece but like a view from the top of mount everest masterpiece. a masterpiece that defies our finite human minds. a masterpiece that was created by the greatest masterpiece Maker of all time.
yes, we are on a journey to become more like Jesus. however, we are not at ground zero. we are not nothing, trying to become something.
we are a MASTERPIECE. a masterpiece that is deciding to make something of our lives, a masterpiece that is going to become the person God created us to be.
not quite as daunting as before, is it?
