Total Make-Over by Jewels From The Word
Make-overs are all the rage these days. Make over your home, your garden, your hair, your clothes. Some people need a major overhaul, a total make-over, from their hair to their homes to their lives.
I had a major over-haul in 1975, when I rededicated my life to the Lord Jesus Christ and asked Him to change me, because I had made a wreck of my life. I needed someone to take control of my life and work out all the kinks, to show me what I was born for, what my life meant. It wasn't just my looks, although the Lord surely changed those too, but my attitudes and thoughts and feelings were all scrambled up, until I truly didn't know what I wanted or how I felt.
He didn't change me overnight like they do on those TV makeover shows, but little by little, my life started getting better. Oh, there were still bad times, when I regressed, two steps forward, one step back.
One day years later while I was blow-drying my hair in front of the mirror, I started singing a little song, "Little by little He's changing me, line upon line He teaching me," My heart leaped in my chest and I started to cry. Jesus really had been changing me, while I wasn't looking. Jesus was making me into what He had intended for me to be all along.
II Corinthians 5:17-18 says, " Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new. Now all things are of God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ. . ."
The moment you ask Jesus into your heart, you are born again and become a new creation, a new creature, a new species of being that hasn't been known of before. Your spirit is changed and made new, but it takes a while for that change to work its way outside. I am just now beginning to be the woman God wants me to be.
Jesus changed me from the inside out.
I had a major over-haul in 1975, when I rededicated my life to the Lord Jesus Christ and asked Him to change me, because I had made a wreck of my life. I needed someone to take control of my life and work out all the kinks, to show me what I was born for, what my life meant. It wasn't just my looks, although the Lord surely changed those too, but my attitudes and thoughts and feelings were all scrambled up, until I truly didn't know what I wanted or how I felt.
He didn't change me overnight like they do on those TV makeover shows, but little by little, my life started getting better. Oh, there were still bad times, when I regressed, two steps forward, one step back.
One day years later while I was blow-drying my hair in front of the mirror, I started singing a little song, "Little by little He's changing me, line upon line He teaching me," My heart leaped in my chest and I started to cry. Jesus really had been changing me, while I wasn't looking. Jesus was making me into what He had intended for me to be all along.
II Corinthians 5:17-18 says, " Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new. Now all things are of God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ. . ."
The moment you ask Jesus into your heart, you are born again and become a new creation, a new creature, a new species of being that hasn't been known of before. Your spirit is changed and made new, but it takes a while for that change to work its way outside. I am just now beginning to be the woman God wants me to be.
Jesus changed me from the inside out.
Lavon Hightower Lewis
To read more devotionals go to http://jewelsfromtheword.com
Email me at llewis2138@sbcglobal.net
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