INSPIRATION

By Christy Boals www.gracefilledpurpose.com

We are all familiar with seeing this title in the subject lines of our email boxes. This means, in essence, regarding a former communication. It is a prefix that means something is happening again. With this beautiful Spring weather, and all of the green plants and flowers beginning to grow, I really began to think about these two letters.

There are so many words that begin this way: rebirth, redeem, restore, regrow. We even use quite a few of these words to describe what Jesus does in our lives once we receive Him and give ourselves to Him. They tell about the process He begins at our moment of salvation, to turn us from our old, sinful natures into thriving, new creations.

In the same way that the plants and trees do not stay dead and brown from the winter but are slowly changed day by day into the dark green of summer, we too are being slowly changed more and more into Christ’s image.