Transformation: FIRST, Allow GOD
Remember in the closing month of last year, as we looked forward in “As a New Year dawns…” you were encouraged to,
“Ask yourself, what would you like this coming new year to look like? What would you like to be experiencing in this year? What would fulfillment look like for you at the end of 2025? Ask yourself with all that needs to be done, what will your priorities be?
This wait, until the 21st day of the New Year was purposeful, to remind you of these; to charge you to hold on to these- to the picture of what you’d like to see, to be doing, to make a priority. We are only 3 weeks in, and I know the good plans you may have conjured up for 2025 have already been challenged! But hold on to them…
Although it feels like a whole 3 months have passed, we are still just at the beginning, just 21 days young. So hold on…with the end in mind. Like the famous author and speaker, Stephen Covey shared in his best seller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, “Begin with the End in Mind” The change you envision will come…but let me encourage you to, First, Allow GOD!
Allow the Master access to your life to do the deep and transforming work. There’s that “S” word- Surrender. As scary as you may imagine it is to fully to surrender, it isn’t scary to surrender all into His hands, His plan and His will for your life.
How can it be scary when you can ABSOLUTELY trust His love for you!!
How can it be scary when He has a GOOD plan for your life.
How can it be scary when He is ALPHA and OMEGA…He is the One who truly knows the end from the beginning.
How can it be scary when all He wants is to see you use the gifts and talents He gave to you in order to fulfill the purpose He brought you to this earth for.
How can it be scary when it is Him- The Divine Creator of it ALL who is doing it in and through us- partnering with us mere mortals to bring about fulfillment.
One of the first scriptures for the year that I came to was…
“For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths which He set], so that we would walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us].” Ephesians 2:10 AMP
This other scripture also reminds us that God supports us fully and wants us to win! “For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13 AMP
The accomplishing of the good work He has set out for us actually requires Transformation in these areas: –
- Mindset – to surrender and relinquish control; surrender – to His will- His minds, His thoughts- renewing our mind;
- Learning to Trust God- fully;
- Walking by Faith- completely- one day at a time, sometimes one moment at a time;
- Relying completely on Him – especially when bewildered and exhausted;
- Sometimes walking alone for a season – not just to be tortured by this unnatural human path – but enough to die to everything; to rest; to silence the noise; to hear Him clearly and not a million voices or opinions that we ourselves sometimes invite- for fear of walking alone;
- Knowing Your God as the fundamental Resource of all that you need – Peace, Joy, Wisdom, and every earthly need and desire promised;
- Time in His Presence – and sufficient time – to behold Him – until transformation comes!
As the New Year dawns, take time this year to be transformed- not just to accomplish goals and resolutions- but to emerge as a brand-new being, out of the cocoon that held you for so long, or for its intended season!
It’s time to be transformed to that New you – all you were meant to be. The Healthy, Well and Fulfilled you. The walking in Purpose you! To be on that path, to arise, to fully emerging from the ashes- receiving the “Beautiful in His time”, as promised!
