When I wake up in the morning, I don’t get to look in a mirror (because there aren’t mirrors here), but if I did, I imagine I would see my reflection looking back. When people look at me, I imagine they see Kirsten looking back at them. When people observe my actions and hear my words, I imagine they sound or look too much like Kirsten.
See, the object of my life is to reflect more of who Jesus is. Though, often times I try to fill the parts of my life. And in doing so, I fill my life with things not of God. It is dead weight. In order to look more like Christ, I have to let Him chisel away those parts that are not from Him.
In the midst of processing the month, I was reminded about a video I saw a few years ago by The Skit Guys called “God’s Chisel.” This video is exactly what this month has been. God has been chiseling away the crap in my life.
My prayer for this world race is for God to make me look more like him. So in that process this month He has been chiseling away the things that don’t look like him. We’ve been working on shame, trust issues, control issues, and many more. Being completely honest, this month, I’ve found myself struggling with things that I haven’t struggled with in a while or thought I had “overcome.” As I wrestled with God about it, I realized that if I wasn’t on the world race and on team favoured, then I wouldn’t be faced with these issues. I hated that thought because I didn’t want to be honest with myself that these things were still issues in my life. But then I realized that if I wasn’t faced with them, there was no need to work on it. I could have gone on pretending that God had chiseled them away but I chose to be honest and actually let God begin the process of chiseling them away. It hasn’t been easy and if people ask me how I’m doing now, my most common answer is that I’m wrestling with God. Because I am. But in the end, I’m confident that I will look more like Jesus and more like who God created me to be.
Has He been chiseling things in your life, too? He loves you too much to leave you where you are. Let Him make you look more like Jesus.
