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<\/p>\nLast week, I started a week-long conversation with the Lord. It began with me in my frustration, asking God how long it would take me to change. ( well, honestly, it really began with me asking the Lord how long it was going to take the person with whom I’d just had an argument to change!)<\/p>\n
As I settled down and began to listen more, He began to teach me.<\/p>\n
He told me I couldn’t change myself. He told me I couldn’t become like Him just by copying Him. That wasn’t \u00a0enough.<\/p>\n
I waited for Him to tell me more, but that is all I heard for that day.<\/p>\n
The next day, I was talking to the Lord about some stress in my life and why He was allowing it. What good was there in it? As I listened, I heard Him say, “as you are pressured and press yourself against Me, my image is imprinted on you. All you have to do is throw yourself on Me.<\/p>\n
As I went into our church a few days later, I looked at the bronze Adam & Eve on the doors. I realized the art form to make the doors, the Lost Wax process, is similar to what happens to us in Transfiguration – as we allow the pressure in our lives to push us towards Jesus, He impresses His image into us.<\/p>\n
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