A Spiritual Transformation–Last night was testimony night at Celebrate Recovery. The person who gave their story was from a neighboring CR. She introduced herself as one who struggled with three different areas all of which were fairly unrelated to my own story. Yet, when she began her story I all of a sudden began to hear fragments of my own childhood. I kept wondering why her childhood abuse wasn’t mentioned in her introduction of self at the beginning? As she got towards the end of the story she used the phrase–Spiritual Transformation as what God has provided for her. So, her introduction outlined her adult battles dealing with the bitterness, anger, frustration one encounters when a childhood was like her own.

I have been searching in my own life regarding this topic of spiritual transformation. I’ve written about this a few times in the past weeks. Hearing someone put it into their testimony last night was so good to experience. I don’t think there is anyone who comes to CR, counseling or any other “help programs” who hasn’t battled fighting their struggles from the strength of their flesh. We think that is why God gives us self-will so we can be strong for Him only to find our strength doesn’t sustain us long term. It isn’t until we learn to surrender this “self” part that we can begin to hear the Voice of God’s Spirit within wanting to guide our every step.

The voice of self and the deceptive voice of Satan always encourages us to think we can do this on our own. Separating this evil message from God’s Spiritual message to us is a key point to beginning the journey of God’s Spiritual Transformation for us. It is also important to know this is a daily and sometimes many times a day surrender.

It is so good to see God at work in the lives of those around us. All of this helps us to stay the course letting our own story be used for God’s Glory in the lives of others.