Selfie 2020

It's funny what catches your eye and makes you think thoughts.

This is me. Part snow white. Part dried brown. Once lovely to look at when younger, now there's beauty in a different way.

The white snow reminds me of the Spirit working steadily to make me look more like Jesus.

You see some snow (Jesus) in me. And you see some dried flower (the carnal me) there as well.

As with this nature scene, it doesn't happen all at once. But make no mistake, it is surely happening - to you and to me.

We are changing.

And as long as we stay exposed to the Source, the Power...

we will be changing.

But bring that dried brown flower inside (draw yourself in - in to yourself) and the progress will diminish, even fade. Not opening your heart and mind to the Spirit's movement limits all the Spirit can do for you.

Now you can see from the picture that not every flower is covered the same. Some have very little snow. Some are almost totally covered and bending down to the ground. Another reminder that we receive the Spirit's gift at a different pace, depending on our willingness to receive.

Think about the parable of the four soils (Matthew 13:1-6).
Hard ground, rocky ground and good soil. Do you have your head up like these dried, brown flowers? Still seeking, still wanting to receive? Still wanting to be... Be more like Jesus?

So let the snow fall on you.
Appreciate the slow and steady progress; the undeterred faithfulness the Lord has for you.

Receive Him.
Let Him cover you.
Enfold you.