There are many times in life when we must reconfigure.
We don’t benefit from doing things one way without deviation for a lifetime. Even our walk with Jesus should grow and transform over time and maturity. Nothing in our lives should remain stagnant.
When we begin to do things simply for the sake of doing them…because it’s what we’ve always done and how we’ve always done it…we then cut Holy Spirit off from that part of our lives.
Holy Spirit is alive. Always moving and in the business of transformation…
Transformation…
If we are “being transformed into His likeness” …then that alone indicates that movement is necessary for growth.
I wonder a lot. I wonder why we do the things we do. I wonder what things are important, and what things aren’t. I wonder what real faith looks like. I wonder what a real Christian looks like. I wonder what it looks like to worship in spirit and truth.
Do you ever wonder?
Do you ever allow God to reconfigure things in your life?
As a small and simple example, I’ll say this…
For many years the kids and I have read morning devotionals over breakfast…or when they went to private school we’d read it while we drove to school…and we pray. We pray every day together. These are two really good things to do, right? We’ve all grown so much because of this habit.
Fast forward to now. Two of my kids have jobs and they work in the mornings. We don’t have the luxury of doing morning devotionals and prayer anymore. So, for a while we stopped. Then I realized we must find another way, but how?
I toiled for weeks and wondered what the new way should be. Nothing felt right until…suddenly Holy Spirit encouraged me to end our days with Him instead. That way we could still meet as a whole family every day…be in the Word together and pray. Now we read a Proverb at dinner and discuss it, then pray.
We not only need a change from our time schedule, but it was also a time to change what we read together. We’ve grown and it was time to grow in this, as well.
We’ve allowed God to reconfigure our daily time with Him, as a family.
You see, what happens when we don’t allow God to reconfigure things is when we find ourselves unable to operate in the old way, we simply quit. Stop doing what we know matters.
We must remain creative and allow Holy Spirit to create within us. That’s what growth looks like.
When is the last time you reconfigured?
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18
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