There is a transition in the lives of those who follow Jesus. Some Christians who only go to church refuse to go through this transformation. It’s the circumstances that we go through that transform us. This statement might shock you, but you are being transformed into God’s image through the circumstances. It’s how you respond that determines if you are in God’s image. God is good. Jesus said that He is the only One who is good. So if you make a tree good, then its fruit is good. That’s why you are being transformed in God’s image from glory to glory.
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Luke 18:18 Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 19 So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.
There is another aspect to this transition. It requires you to humble yourself. Calling yourself a sinner is not humbling. Turning away from sin is humbling. Referring to yourself as a sinner is still about you. What is humbling is denying yourself, picking up Jesus’s righteousness, and living through His righteousness by following His example. Now that is humbling. Your love for God is to be primary before, your husband, wife, kids, grandparent, etc. This should not change your love for God if anything happens to them. If it does, then you didn’t love God foremost. Nothing should change your love for God. If it does, you are systematically being removed from God’s image. Understand that those who live by faith in Jesus’s righteousness will never leave that righteousness, but those who choose to live any other way, are not following the way, of Jesus.
Matthew 10:37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written: “But the righteous one will live by faith.”
I don’t know if you have noticed, but all of what Jesus taught is to transform you back into God’s image. He showed that a man filled with God can live in God’s image. If you don’t see Jesus in people’s lives, who are they following? Not just that, whose faith are they following? Love is the bait to which we catch men. Jesus taught us to love our enemies, bless those who curse us, and pray for those who despitefully use us. When you do those things you will be just like your Father in heaven. If you want to be transformed into God’s image walk, talk, and act like Jesus who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn before all creation. Be blessed, my friend
Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities orpowers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Hebrews 13:7 Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their way of life, imitate their faith.
Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.