Change Me, Lord

“Be Imitator of God as dear children.” (Eph.5:1)

Nothing is quite so endearing as seeing a little girl dressed up with her mother’s dress, gloves, shoes and hat, pretending to be her mother. That is what God wants us to do – to imitate Him. How in the world can we imitate God? As His children His genes make up our spirit. His royal blood runs through our veins; He has made us kings and priests (Rev.1:6). His Holy Spirit lives within us, teaching us how to act, love and live like a “king’s kid.”

Every day as we watch Him act in our life and in the lives of others, we see how He is transforming us and being “molded into the perfect image of his Son, Jesus” (Rom.8:29). As we study His example in the Bible we see how He obeyed the Father; loved the unlovely; repaid evil with good; wept over the lost; told the good news and rejoiced in the things He suffered.

Romans 12:2 tell us, “Do not be conformed to this world (fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs), but be transformed (changed) by the entire renewal of your mind (by its ideals and its new attitude), so that you may prove for yourselves what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, (even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you) (Amp).”

Being “conformed” is to be pushed into a mold or chiseled to look like something or someone. It is an external process. But on the other hand, to be “transformed” is to be changed from the inside-out. Like the butterfly that lays an egg from which a worm will emerge and will spin a coccoon around itself. It then begins the metamorphosis process which in time the worm has been transformed (changed) into a beautiful butterfly, which looks like its progenitor. In this life we are spiritually in the metamorphosis stage, being changed from “glory to glory” (II Cor.3:18), until ”when He comes and we finally get to see Him we will be like Him for we shall see Him as He is” (I Jn.3:2).

They say the longer you live with someone the more you get to look like them. I have lived with Jesus for seventy years, I wonder if I am looking more like Him? Hopefully I am being transformed into His likeness!


“CHANGE ME LORD”
Katrice Ivy

To come into the presence of the living God is to be changed.
We cannot come into His high and holy place and stay the same.
So change me, Lord, remake me, Lord, transform me to the image of Your Son.
Change me, Lord, remake me, Lord, transform me to the image of Your Son.