Do you still look the way you did before you met Jesus?
It has been more than twenty years since I came in contact with Jesus, and I must admit, I have had my share of ups and downs. Over the years my experience has thought me not to take my Salvation for granted, so now and then I do a soul-searching. I usually replay situations where I think I did wrong and ask God to forgive me. I also devise strategies that I think will help to stop me from making those mistakes ever again. Sometimes I fail, but I keep trying.
Astonishingly, recently while I was doing my usual soul-searching the following question pops up in my head: “Do you still look the way you did before you met Jesus?..Now, this is a difficult question. Nonetheless, I would like to think I have changed tremendously for the better over the past twenty years. Conversely, If I have not, then I would be one of the biggest Dr. Hyde and Mrs. Jekyll because it is impossible for anyone to stay the same after he or she, came in contact with Jesus. If I sound stupid, and naïve, I am not the only one.
The apostle Paul, in one of his letters to the Church in Corinth states: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Perhaps the apostle was thinking about his own conversion and later transformation (Acts 9), when he penned those words. For there was no fiercer opponent of the gospel of Jesus Christ than Saul, yet when he came in contact with Jesus his life transformed like a caterpillar morphed into a butterfly. ![images[2]](http://prhayz.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/images2.jpg)
My dear brothers and sisters let us face reality. If we say we are Christians, and family, friends, neighbors and co-workers do not see the change in us, something is wrong. It is either we have aborted the transformation process or it never occurred at all. Surely, Saul did not suddenly become this perfect person after his Damascus road experience. Neither did the Samaritan woman who met Jesus at the well, but the changes in these two people were blinding.
Hence, if family, friends, neighbors and co-workers do not see any changes in your attitude, behavior, language and modus operandi you need to ask yourself this question: “Do I still look the way I did before I met Jesus?” If the answer is yes, then it is time for a soul-searching.
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Yes….and Amen!!! This is a powerful word Bro. Noel….far too many of our brothers and sisters are saved but not transformed. Thank you!
Minister Glenda
Great post!
Wonderful and enriching post! Thank you!
Do you still look the same way before you met Jesus? That is truly a question to ponder and marinate in on today! I have no doubt that God put that in your spirit to write! I felt it in my belly when I read the subject!
Truly, this is the question of the day in which we live!
May God forever richly bless you Noel for such a powerful and profound Word!
For that I do tell the Lord thank you!
God bless my brother!
Debra
Amen! When I become discouraged at my progress, Jesus reminds me to look back and to see where I came from. It gives me hope! Great post, Noel!
God Bless You!
Physically, of course I have changed after 53 years.
SPIRITUALLY, I became a new person after a very dramatic conversion experience. My whole life was changed. *I* didn’t change – that is, I didn’t change myself – but my amazing triune God changed me completely, and He still changes me, little by little, transforming me into His goal of Christlikeness, preparing me as the bride of Christ for that wonderful day coming when I ‘shall be like Him’ 1 John 3:2.
I am one day closer to that day!
What an incredibly amazing God!
There’s nothing better than love -
being loved, and knowing you are loved…
this grace almost forces one to change,
if only in order to please your beloved.
Happy in appearance, be an inner joy unmasked.
God bless you and your work, Noel!