II Corinthians 3: 18
...And the Lord--Who is the Spirit--makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His glorious image.
If you have been reading these last several days, then you will have some knowledge of God's ways to apply in your own daily living. These are the things that display God's love in us and promote His love for others in the world.
God has formulated and decided and put forth a great Plan of the Ages for our whole Universe, including Earth, and individual plans for each of us as components of that Plan. He knows what is the very best for each of us, and whenever He closes a door He opens another, with even greater opportunity and benefit.
His love for us is beyond anything that we can imagine, so we know that we can trust Him with our lives--our desires, our dreams, our own plans--because, as our Maker, He knows each of us intimately, down to the hairs on our heads and the very molecules that make up the cells of our bodies. And He knows our weaknesses, too. So, as a good Father, He allows us to go through fires and pressures. He wants us to submit to Him as our Father, to melt out the impurities and squeeze out the pure, genuine ore of our intended being--the very image of our glorious Lord. We will one day shine as the Sun, as He does now. Let's not resist His working in us to produce that glory.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
