A Holy Makeover

Do you want to know God? Do you really desire to have an intimate, heart-to-heart relationship with him? If you do, then respond to his rebuke. Don't refuse his correction. Respond to him with a teachable heart, and you'll be surprised as the holy makeover that happens in your own life. I want that for my life, I want a holy makeover as transforming as Martha's. The purpose of Jesus' death on the cross wasn't to provide fire insurance or an all-expenses-paid trip to heaven. He died and rose again so we could be made new. So we wouldn't have to stay in our trespasses and sins, tangled up by our emotions, hurts, and past disappointments. He did it so we could be "transformed into his likeness," Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:18. Transformation. We can experience it as well. All we have to do is be teachable. Jesus will change us. All we have to do is lay down our old lives-and he'll make them new. (From:Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World)