Spiritual Transformation ………………………………………..
THURSDAY
Life is filled with an abundance of unavoidable circumstances that cause pain—and an array of avoidable bad choices that necessitate discipline. God uses both ccircumstances and discipline to transform believers into His Son’s likeness.
True spiritual transformation isn’t without struggle; Jesus’ life and death exemplify that. By trusting and obeying God in the midst of struggles, trying circumstances become a garden for heart-changing miracles.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed (1 Pet. 1:6-7).