wishes for new

Pondering almost nonstop about a future day. Driving home from a meeting of the brethren earlier this week and thinking more about the concept of renewal. The lukewarm view the renewal available to them on their great day of change the same way they view a renewal of magazine subscriptions. They think the change forthcoming is along the lines of an extension of existing states of being. Maybe this time with a little thank you gift.

True renewal involves you becoming something greater than the sum of your virtues minus the sum of your many faults. True renewal involves you existing in a state heretofore unseen by you. True renewal involves you not at all, really. The Word says, "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit." That free gift? Something eternal.