This is a spotlight on the Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:18. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 

Transformation!

Spiritual transformation is an internal change that reflects the character of Christ and brings about an identical external change. Transformation is the demonstration that the information has taken root. Listen it requires your participation beloved you don’t transform yourself. In 2 Corinthians 3:18 Paul said “ beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.

Did you catch what Paul said “ being transformed”? God accomplishes it as the Holy Spirit uses our knowledge, openness, and obedience to the Word of God, (i.e. the Mirror)The Word of God is the Mirror. Listen  —the idea is not just for us to read the Word, to be transformed, but rather look at HIM until transformed.

Listen, Paul talks about a veil over our hearts that is removed when we turn to Christ. As believers, we look to Jesus, but sin in our lives can still veil our eyes. When we confess our sins and are in fellowship with Him, we see Him. With an unveiled face, we behold the glory of the Lord like looking in a mirror. This isn't about reflecting to transform, but about being transformed by beholding. Then, we can reflect on His image. A more accurate translation might be: we behold the glory of the Lord as in a mirror and are transformed into His image from one level of glory to another, by the Spirit.

Perhaps some of you remember Nathaniel Hawthorne's story about the great stone face. A little lad lived in a village where there was a mountain with a rock formation which they called the great stone face. The people had a legend that someday someone would come to the village who would look like the great stone face. He would do wonderful things for the village and be a means of great blessing. That story took hold of the lad. During his lifetime he would gaze at the great stone face at every opportunity that he had, and he would dream of the time someone looking like the great stone face would come to the village. Years passed and as time went by, he became a young man, then an old man. He was walking down the street one day when someone looked up and saw him coming and shouted, “He has come. The one who looks like the great stone face is here.” This man had looked at the great stone face for so long that now he bore its image.  Listen to me. Do you want to be Christlike? Then spend time looking at Jesus. The songwriter said

Turn your eyes upon Jesus;

Look full in His wonderful face;

And the things of earth will grow strangely dim

In the light of His glory and grace.

I need this. We,  need to see Jesus Christ on the pages of the Word of God so that we might grow more like Him.

This is a spotlight on the Scripture