I began to look for answers.

My personal journey into authentic belief, into Christian belief that is real, into spiritual transformation that energizes, started with my search to know God. This search is ongoing and will continue until I meet my Savior face to face in the next life.

Spiritual transformation is a process that takes both you and God. It takes honesty with God, transparency with God. You have to have some skin in the game.

• It takes looking in the mirror of God.
• It takes a decision to sit at the feet of Jesus and learn from Him.
• It takes putting your false self aside by not pretending anymore.
• It takes seeking God to know Him.

The end result is you become authentic.

I want you to get a taste of what it is like to be spiritually transformed and to live an authentic Christian life. How far you want to go with this, depends on your willingness to seek God with an open heart.

Heather, in her latest book Called to be Me, says it this way. “Fly, little butterfly, … fly!” That’s what spiritual transformation looks like after you’ve been on the journey a while.

When you change, you become beautiful, and you get to fly.

I wrote this on Twitter last month.

“One of the most freeing things I ever did was to ask God to heal my memories. I didn’t know if God could heal them. Through a process, God met me where I was at and He cleansed my memories. The sorrow and submerged pain left. That was 19 years ago.”

@nlbrumbaugh

God did what I could not do.

God does what we cannot do. Every time God meets us in our place of sorrow and pain, He takes us further than we were before. When you get discouraged, look back at your back trail and see what God has already done in your life.

God is doing something in you.

Your spiritual transformation may be very slow. Don’t quit. Don’t allow discouragement to overtake you. Don’t turn aside and think it’s not worth the effort. Trust in God takes time to develop. As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day.

God is doing two things in your life (and maybe more). He is deconstructing what doesn’t belong (which is painful and thorough). He is constructing what does belong. Both take time. God is developing a living relationship with you. One that speaks life to your soul. Hang in there.

Invite God to minister to your soul. God is willing, able, and delights in drawing close to you. When you begin to open up and draw upon God’s good favor toward you, you will experience divine mercy, loving tenderness, and spiritual enlivening.

You are becoming a friend of God.

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