God Would Produce Christ's Beauty in Our Lives

By A. W. Tozer

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. . .put on
the new man, which after God is created in
righteousness  and true holiness.
                                              -  -  Ephesians 4:23. 24.

    God is faithful---He is never going to be done with us
in shaping us and fashioning us as dear children of God
until the day that we will see Him face to face!

    Truly, in that gracious day, our rejoicing will not be in
the personal knowledge that He saved us from hell, but
in the joyful knowledge that He was able to renew us,
bringing the old self to an end, and creating within us
the new man and the new self in which can be
reproduced the beauty of the Son of God!

    In the light of that provision, I think it is true that no
Christian is where he ought to be spiritually until that
beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ is being reproduced in
daily Christian life.

    I admit that there is necessarily a question of degree in
this kind of transformation of life and character.

    Certainly there has never been a time in our human
existence when we could look into our own being, and
say: "Well, thank God, I see it is finished now. The Lord
has signed the portrait.  I see Jesus in myself!"

    Nobody will say that---nobody!

    Even though a person has become like Christ, he will
not know it, because humility and meekness are also a
part of the transformation of true godliness!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.