Putting Me Together...

It's been almost a year since I last posted anything here. So, here's another stab at it...

My four year old was sitting in my lap the other night and said, "Daddy, we're a puzzle that God puts together." You know, that's prettying good theology. Who doesn't love putting puzzles together? Of course, the 25 piece ones are more my speed. We take all the pieces out, turn them up and start looking for those corner pieces. Of course, the picture on the cover of the box is essential.

As Emily pointed out, there is a great spiritual application here. If we have received the gift of salvation that has been provided in Christ and have declared Christ as Lord, then we are His Child. We are in Christ! But, so many forget that this is only the beginning of what God wants to do in our lives. He wants to mold and shape us into the likeness of His Son. If I'm in Christ, then God is still working on me, conform me to His Son. This is our destiny in Christ and what Paul talks about in Romans 8:29... "For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers."

Paul goes on to say in other passages...

"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3:18

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old is gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17

We're not there yet. We must press on and be willing for God to take the hammer and chisel to the un-Christlike areas of our life. It may be painful at times, but it is worth it!