Growing pains

Just when I thought I was almost out of the Refiner’s Fire I realized that God is no where close to finishing his restoration work on me yet…in fact he just reminded me that this is a lifelong process... oh my!

I wonder how long it took him to recreate Adam and Eve after their ‘fall’! I suspect that this was as long as they lived too or maybe they were not as badly bruised as I was made to believe!

Growing spiritually, and even emotionally is very painful and challenging and sometimes very frightening, very, very scary.

It seems like I needed a life transplant! Yawch!

When I started the journey back to divinity, I figured I’d need a little tweak here and a tug there and some tune up every now and then to renew my heart and refresh my soul and restore a few tissues, cells and blood vessels; but no, it turned out that God decided to start from scratch and I was in for a time of my life. I wonder what Holy Essence is up to!

There are days when it feels like perseverance is running out and I feel crumbled, some days even a bit scrambled and tormented. The temptation to run from the Potter’s hand is drastically high; still I continue to allow God to fully restore me because I know that when God is finished with me I will be radiant from the inside out; therefore, I willingly and earnestly endure the makeover and all its ouches, oooo's and aaahs'.

I am in for the long haul and I know that Holy Spirit is here to stay because I need a ride on its wings when Jesus' arms and shoulders need a timeout from carrying me!