I had just gone through a really emotional few days. It wasn’t as if there was anything wrong in particular, and it was one of those days where I couldn’t seem to do anything right in my own eyes! After a particularly brutal self-flagellating session, I sat down to eat a dinner that I didn’t really feel like eating even though it was my favorite Thai dish. Before I started eating I cracked open one of the Fortune cookies that were included with the meal and I read the following: ‘You will discover something wonderful about yourself’ Yeah right! I muttered, but after a few seconds I started smiling and a few moments later I was laughing albeit all by myself. What caused this transformation? It was the Lord using those words to release me – He said to me, ‘Yes you will discover that you are human! And that you will make mistakes and mess up!!’ He said to me child you are not perfect and the more you try to compare yourself to perfection, the more you will fall short. What you need to do is to trust yourself to Perfection; that He will do His work in you to bring about needed change… Rest in me and trust me to make all things right He said … Needless to say my heart was immediately lightened… So as I have determined to do with all divine gifts that I receive, I pass this God-given Fortune cookie message to all who may right now find themselves falling into this same cesspool of self-flagellation, so that as we turn to Perfection himself confessing our sins, we are changed as we begin to reflect His glory….
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:8,9
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:18
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