“And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become…”
(Mk. 1:17)
Jesus promised His followers if they would put Him up front, in first place, coming after Him, then He would make them to become something they had never been; something they never would have imagined. That being mainly a help and an exceptional blessing to others. But it would not happen overnight but over time. Pentecost seems to have been the starting point. Prior to this, the mold was being cast so to speak.
His followers were not “self-made men,” but rather, “God-made men.” Paul emphatically declared this when he said, “By the grace of God I am what I am .” (1 Cor. 15:10) As I often say, “We are what we have been becoming.” We didn’t just happen. Whatever each of us, man or woman, is today we have been becoming. John was a young, hard-hearted hot-head, but God made him to become a loving old man. He became what he wasn’t!
God gave Jeremiah an object lesson on the subject of us becoming. (Jer. 18) He showed him that at times during the process of the person that is becoming, they’re marred and becomes useless; but they are not thrown on the rubbish heap. Rather, God begins again with them becoming another vessel. All God’s creation is becoming: a child becomes an adult; a caterpillar becomes a butterfly; a bud becomes a flower; etc. I wonder, what are you and I becoming?
“Aaron’s engraving tool fashioned something that was a substitute for God. So does Satan’s.”
(rds)
An Old Disciple
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