Professionals love to say shift, #innovate and #grow. Transformation is king. But sometimes the best thing is to come home to God and who you are.
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You’re already a gem with immeasurable value
In Christian circles, we talk a lot about how God changes us. We talk about leaving the things of the world and being made new in Jesus (Revelation 21:5, 2 Corinthians 5:17). We get advice to be transformed through different ways of thinking (Romans 12:2). But if all of that is toward greater authenticity for our designed purpose, in my view, that’s acceptance, not change. It’s cleaning the dirt (sin) off the diamond that only needed to understand it was already a gem.
The pressure of the world doesn’t have to be on you anymore
Now, here’s the thing. To keep that diamond analogy going a little, I know there’s a lot of pressure on you to be different, to not be the coal others give the impression you are. And I know you are probably exhausted. (I know I have been.) It’s almost as though transformation has become this code word for worthiness of love — unless you are constantly bettering and rejecting your current self, you have no value. That is the message of the corporate world and our culture at large. And the world has a very specific picture of how you are supposed to be.
But that picture isn’t necessarily God’s picture. You will have to choose between His intent and what the world puts pressure on you to be.
A simplified decision
So, let me make the transformation choice a little easier for you. With God, the only pressure is to stay close. Jesus already has cleaned you up so you can shine. With Him, there’s rest, not constant weight. In the story of the Prodigal Son, where the father welcomed home the son who had been foolish, the foolishness never changed that the son was a son and that the father wanted him home. When the son accepted who and where he was supposed to be, the father threw a party.
You do like balloons and music and food…right?
You can have them, but you have to stop working around the pig trough.
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