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TRANSFORMED TO TRANSFORM

With our healing comes the privilege of co-laboring with the Lord for the advancement of His kingdom. Having been restored and transformed, we will be used by the Lord to restore and transform others by the power of His Spirit at work in us.

This truth is beautifully prophesied about in Isaiah 61, which Jesus proclaimed as His public ministry as­signment (Luke 4). The Messiah binds up the brokenhearted, frees the captives, and comforts mourners. Such healing for the hurts we cannot erase, but that’s not where it ends!

Isaiah 61 calls us “oaks of righteousness” in our generation (verse 3), displaying His glory to others. And the passage goes on to say:

They shall build up the ancient ruins;

they shall raise up the former devastations;

they shall repair the ruined cities,

the devastations of many generations. (verse 4)

Hav­ing been transformed from the inside out, our lives will bear wit­ness to the eternal truth that God and God alone restores the brokenhearted.

As Paul says, “We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10). This foreordained work includes letting others see what God has done in us, even in the hardest areas of life.

Transformation and healing what can’t be erased involves and af­fects us, but in the view of God’s eternal purposes, it isn’t fully about us. We simply aren’t the point of our own stories.

We are transformed . . . to transform.

We are restored . . . to restore.

And we are rebuilt from the inside out . . . to rebuild for the glory of the Lord in our generation.

None of us have to move on from the pain and losses of yesterday. But if we’re going to steward this short life of ours, we must move forward. And a beautiful part of this is bringing the message of healing to others.

How can you set yourself apart for a generation that is hungry and thirsty for true life?

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