John and Kathy Deisher

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Made Like Him

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Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.”

― Brother Lawrence
“Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.”

I have noticed something during my lifetime. I develop something, I learn something, something of which I am very proud.

And I take it to God, the great stone carver, and point out my new thing. He looks at me for a minute. He sizes me up, and he sizes up this new piece of me.

“That’s nice,” he says. And he picks up a hammer and chisel and whacks it off.

Then he whacks off some of the old things as well.

I am not good at this “stone before the carver” thing. Why would God do this? Those were my best parts.

But I’ve learned they are not my God-parts. They are not in his image. They are not like him.

So, whack away.

In His Image

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Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and to bring Him nearer to our own image.”

—A.W. Tozer, “The Pursuit of God” 
"Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and to bring Him nearer to our own image.”

I shared with our interns the other day a different way of looking at the Bible.

Instead of reading the Bible and asking, “What are you saying to me, God?”, we should read the Bible and say, “What are you revealing about yourself, God?”.

It seems simple when you think about it. We were made in his image. So, that means as we learn more about God, his nature and attributes, we learn more about ourselves.

We make adjustments to our lives.

What is God revealing about himself to you, so that you can live in his image?