from the inside out

The Word for Today: 
Ephesians 3:1 -- 3:21

mark this:
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man;
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. (Ephesians 3:16-17)

We are born with a fallen, human nature. It's our nature to run from God and to put ourselves first. The image of God we once presented is distorted and tarnished, nearly unrecognizable.

But when we trust Jesus we become super-natured, Spirit-natured. We become super-natural!

We are being transformed into the image of God by degrees--from glory to glory (1)--by the Spirit, from the inside out. Eventually the new nature will surface and we will be like Jesus (2). That's our destiny (3).

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(1) 2 Corinthians 3:18; (2) 1 John 3:2; (3) see Romans 8:29