No matter how far I walk along this journey of life, I still need God to transform my heart. Each time I think I have arrived, I find a bit of selfishness lurking in my heart. Nothing makes this more evident than a family reunion; because, there arrives hearts that are raw with emotions of things past and expectations of things to come. Beyond that, many come with hearts seeking their own fulfillment from others instead of from God.
Because God knows the true state of my heart and all that I need to become like His Son, He continues to work within me to change me into the perfect righteousness He declared and determined I would be. Every trial, every circumstance He uses to transform me a little more; so that, I might fully enjoy Him. Because He is always about transforming me into His image; fully actualized in Him. When He completes the work, I enjoy His love, His joy and bask in the presence of His Glory.
We transform into people who gain God’s mission of reaching the lost. Love guides us and drives us with a passion for this one thing: to bring others to God’s light and love.
Philippians 3:
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Paul realized this truth. He urged the church at Philippi to be thus minded as well. Although God had cloaked them in the righteousness of Christ; having declared them perfect; because of the work God continued to do in them: still God needed to continuously reveal to them that for which He needed to transform in their hearts. They needed to be ever aware that they had not fully attained; but, to press toward that goal with all the passion within their heart.
TRANSFORM MY HEART
By Effie Darlene Barba
Dear Lord, please look inside my heart
Transform me from within
For sometimes Lord I cannot see
The truth of all my sin
There seems to be a battle, Lord
That rages in my soul
The person that I really am
With the one that is my goal
And when I look into the mirror
Which one will I then see
The one that’s caught in selfish pride
Or the one I want to be
And when I think I have arrived
I find that what is true
A bit of me I hold too tight
To ever look like You
And so,
Dear Lord, please look inside my heart
Transform me from within
For sometimes Lord I cannot see
The truth of all my sin
So, Purify me with your flames
And burn away the gross
That I might shine Your light of love
And never count the loss
Whatever trial you must send
To change this heart of mine
My one desire, my lord my king
Is that Your Glory shine!
And die to me that You might live
Your love and Grace to give
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CONCLUDING TWEETS:
[tweetthis]Whatever it takes, Lord; transform my heart to love like you do.[/tweetthis]
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A Broken and Contrite Heart, I published in 2010, answers the question, “What do I do when I keep falling into the same sin? Does God hate me because I keep failing to get this write? So, where do I begin again and find joy in my salvation; after, falling. If you want to know more about this book or the other books I have written: You can find a link at: Book Resources.
©Effie Darlene Barba, 2017
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