When we talk about transformation, there is a sense that we do change quickly – from darkness to light, from death to life, however, our change or our sanctification is rather slowly developed as our characteristics do not change quickly. Seeking in fact is designed to pull us as quickly as we can stand it and then we see God’s grace and cooperation creating a different person.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.^[a] The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.              2 Corinthians 5:17  ESV

It’s in the seeking God that allows us to respond to God and for God to respond to us.

Again, we see the “old” us mocking the gospel and spiritual things and we see the “new” us loving and embracing these things. That is the only quick change that happens. It becomes our hope and confidence that will eventually become our own story as we live to be identified as a faithful disciple of Jesus.

Come to think of it, God is new. We have seen God in Christ as a man and to think that was the first time we have actually seen God. Jesus never pointed in the sky and said that heaven is up there as we often do with children. Poor Philip stepped right into this one when he asked Jesus to show the Father. Jesus’ beautiful answer – if you have seen me, you have seen the Father.

My takeaway – Christlikeness is what God is.