TOPIC: WE BEHOLD TO BECOME
Bible Reading: Isaiah 31-33; Phillipians 1
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord”. – 2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
When we get born again, we have the eternal life of God in us, and that life has the power to affect the ‘form’ of our physical outlook. As a consequence of eternal life, you can be changed from a ‘sickly’ person to a healthy person. You can move from a place of ‘not enough’ to ‘more than enough.’ You can move from defeat to a life of victory to victory.
According to our text, the way this transformation takes place is by what we behold, i.e. what we see. What we constantly look at is what we eventually become. Apostle Paul admonished the church in Colossae, “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” Colossians 3:2 (KJV). Notice it didn’t say to set your spirit on things above because the eternal life of God is already in your spirit: but it says to set your mind on things above. It is in your power to choose what to focus your mind on and what you focus your mind on is what your physical form eventually becomes!
The images in your mind eventually determine the outlook of your life. If you keep looking at Jesus through His Word and everything He says you are, have, and can do, you will eventually become all that you see.
One of the places the word ‘transformation’ appears in the New Testament is in Mark 9:2 where the Bible says, “And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.” This was at the point when Jesus would go to the cross and lay down His life as He looked up to God for resurrection. Scripture tells us that on that mountain the eyes of Jesus’ disciples were opened, and they saw an ‘interpretation’ of what Jesus was doing. Mark 9:4 says, “And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.” What happened here is that Jesus was fellowshipping with Elijah and Moses – the two men who didn’t see death! This was important for Jesus’ resurrection from the dead because what you behold, you eventually become. He saw resurrection power and He was resurrected from the dead.
If you continue beholding life, healing, prosperity, victory, increase and peace from the Word of God, you will surely and eventually become everything you see from glory to glory by the power of God’s Spirit.
Prayer: Father, open my eyes by Your Spirit to behold the wondrous and amazing realities of Your Word as I set my mind on the things that you have given me through Christ Jesus.
Pastor Alfred Samuel