We just finished the study through Joshua and before that Proverbs. I wanted to pause today and reflect on where this site began. I started this website February 10, 2010 with the following blog. Little did I know then where this journey would take us. I chose the name for the website to be myglorytoglory.com because I wanted to point you to realize that little by little, one glory by glory God is transforming you and me into the sanctified, glorified joint-heir with Christ that we have been called and justified to become. Every detail of our life as a Christian is leading us to being changed into that image. If you do not Know Him as your Savior, I urge you to seek Him. How to be Saved is a page I developed to help you find Him. Feel free to email me or comment to ask me if you need guidance or if you wish to pray together.
Artwork used by written permission of the Artist Ronald Barba
2 Corinthians 3: 17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
AT which point did this truth come forth with all its magnitude? It seems that this truth was so newly found although it has been a part of my Christian journey these last 50 years. I wish to start this website to Glorify My Precious Savior and feel so inadequate to tell you of His great and wondrous love. Perhaps in the words of David Ring, I should just tell my story. It has been a story filled with great pain and great triumph in Christ. It includes my great failures and His great faithfulness. It has led me through great valleys where the night seemed too dark to ever find light; yet, in the midst of it all—He has provided His Hope. It reaches to the greatest depth of a broken heart restored to life by His Love. It is the gradual transformation of this undeserving –wicked heart into His likeness. This endeavor will take us through months so I hope you join with me as I try to tell this story and in the telling I hope that I may point you to an All SUFFICIENT SAVIOR who is so worthy of my praise that even if He never gave me anything; even if salvation were not His Gift; I would still fall at His feet in praise. Still this is the miracle of all times; He took my sin and offered me His righteousness instead. He saw me before ever the universe was formed and knew everything about me; every evil word that would be spoken, each rebellious moment; every tear that would fall, every moment of faithlessness, and chose to die for me that I might share in His glory one day. He reaches out to allow me to share in His inheritance and gives me the right to be a child of God . This He has done in spite of me. This gift of salvation has come from Him—there is nothing I could do if I worked each day that would be good enough to deserve even one second in His presence; yet, He has established me to spend an eternity with Him. I fall in humility before Him, so overwhelming in love with My Savior and Friend that I ask Him to please use me. Let me die to all these selfish desires and hopes that He might live through me. Bring whatever pain or suffering necessary to remove the chafe that I might come to know Him and savor Him more. If by my telling this, my story of transformation gradually into His likeness (though far from complete) can help one soul or change the eternity of one; then this endeavor will be worth it all.
Through these years since 2010, I have tried to be fully honest (brutally at times) telling you of my life—good and bad. I have tried to point to victory in Christ to guide you along this journey. Feel free to use the search button to help you find the message you need today. May God guide your heart today to seek Him with all your heart, your mind and your soul. With love, Effie Darlene Barba
© 2014 Effie Darlene Barba
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