Becoming...

Romans 12:2-4 from The Message Bible

"So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—(even your yoga!) and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."

I love these verses!  This is a recipe coming straight from God's Word on how to become the best YOU!  (and me!)  We can "get up and try, try, try" (to quote the song by pink) every day, but until we surrender to Him, our quest for righteousness and self-discovery will never amount to anything!!  It's not about what WE do for Him... It's all about what HE does for US!!!

I recently read this great quote somewhere (?!) that said something like... "if you are searching for yourself you will never find yourself; instead, seek Christ, and then you will find Him, and in the process, you will also find yourself!"  The only way we can become who God truly created us to be is to seek Him with our whole hearts, surrender to Him, and respond quickly to His Holy whispers in our hearts!  Surrender takes practice, friends... and constant maintenance! But, as a sister in Christ just taught me...the MOMENT we surrender, He begins a transformation within us.  Isaiah 43:18 reminds us to be present... to watch what He is doing... for He is about to do something brand new!!!

Let's be present and watch.  Watch who we are all becoming in Christ.