AUTHENTIC OR TRANSFORMED

My niece, Melissa, wrote a blog about an article she had read in a magazine regarding your “Authentic Self.” My son, Steven, who always has an opinion about any subject, entered into the discussion. Steven thinks I dismiss everything he says when actually I think he has one of the sharpest minds and is one of the deepest thinkers I have ever known. For the last few days, I have been unable to get his line of reasoning out of my mind.

Our discussion followed the usual lines of our authentic self is: The person we are when we are all alone or with the person we trust most in the world. Most of our friends and acquaintances will thankfully never meet the authentic self. Steven’s contention was that our authentic self is the person we are before we commit our lives to Jesus Christ.

We are born with the nature of Adam, the nature to sin. As we mature we try to control that nature according to the standards of behavior set by society. Our attempts at righteousness are futile and the Bible calls them “filthy rags.” The authentic self must be transformed. Transformation can only be accomplished through the Blood of Jesus Christ.

II Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

The blood of Jesus covers the authentic self and we become a reflection of the Glory of God.

II Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Dear Lord,
Transform my “authentic self” into a reflection of Your Glory. Let people see Your Righteousness shining through.

Read also Ephesians 2:1-6, Romans 12:2, Romans 8:29, Colossians 3:10

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