Everything Is Transformed

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

September 11, 2025

Everything Is Transformed

And I will ask the Father,

and he will give you another Advocate,

who will never leave you.

He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth.

 But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.

John 14: 16,17 a,c 

God can do so much, in a relatively short period of time, at least the time we keep on a twenty-four clock. Think of what seems like a short period of time Jesus was with Saul on the Road to Damascus. In this time, Paul went from law to grace like no other person before, or since. Or think about Jesus’ disciples. I don’t think they were able to comprehend Jesus’ statement highlighted above in that moment. But in the forty days after his resurrection, Jesus helped them understand EVERYTHING that they had experienced with him for the previous three years.

So, it is also with us. We can cruise through life, then one day we are reading Romans 8:26-27,

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.

And then on this day, we stopped. We usually rushed on ahead to that wonderful ending of Romans 8 where we are promised nothing can separate us from the love of God. Not on this day. On this day we are stunned. We read the Holy Spirit, who lives in us, is praying and pleading to God for us! We rejoice in the truth that God really is for us.

My Takeaway: In moments like this, we are struck by grace. I believe Paul Tillich helps us process this moment of grace.

“After such an experience we may not be better than before, we may not believe more than before. But everything is transformed." (Paul Tillich, The Shaking of the Foundations, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, pages160-161) 

Sē’lah

My book on prayer,

First Think, Then Pray

is now available on Amazon Kindle.

 

(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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