The 40-Day Mirror Fast: Focusing Your Eyes on Jesus and Off Your Appearanceნიმუში

Transforming Your Image

Want to transform your image? A Google search will yield millions of results with ideas for creating the “new and improved” version of you.

Can you believe scripture talks about transforming our image, too? But the Bible doesn’t insist we find the right products, tools, and plans to do a “glow up.” Instead, scripture talks about us looking more like Jesus.

In 2 Corinthians 3:18, Paul talks about followers of Jesus as being transformed into the image of Christ. In this passage, Paul is explaining that we can have even more faith, hope, and boldness than Moses did, because of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection. We can become new creations in Christ. With the Holy Spirit alive inside of us, we can put our old images aside and transform our image to be more like His. The evidence of our sanctification transformation isn’t better hair or smoother skin, the evidence of that is the fruit of the Spirit. It’s the mirror of scripture that tells us how the transformation is going, not the mirror hanging in our bathrooms.

Verse 17 of this same chapter reminds us that where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. It’s the spirit that enables this transformation. It’s so tempting to believe the messages around us, that we will have more freedom, confidence, and a better life when we can transform our images. But scripture teaches us another way. Freedom, confidence, and the joy we seek are all found in Christ alone. As we are transformed into his image, then we can become and thrive in who he made us to be.

Today, let’s read about the Bible’s version of a makeover story.