received him back as a type

Yesterday I wondered whether a person could have two versions of himself, and how one could distinguish between real and fake. I obviously didn't understand that the choice might not be twixt real and fake but perchance twixt real and real.

1Sam10:6 has an interesting prophecy from Samuel to Saul. Samuel tells him that "The the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you mightily, and you shall prophesy with them and be changed into another man." Even before that part of the prophesy had been fulfilled, v9 tells us that "when he turned his back to leave Samuel, God changed his heart."

I forget that when we ask the Lord into our lives, we are not some new and improved version of the old, but something altogether different. I suppose, then, that the converse is true -- that when we allow evil into our lives we achieve a negative something altogether different. We are not some singular snapshot, but rather a portfolio of shots, each some image of ourself, all real.