Why is the scale tipped?
Why is “Transformers” weighty?
What’s the point?
Hopefully you’ve asked some of these, and regardless I’m going to answer them now.
Coming back onto the field as a squad leader has presented so many amazing opportunities to share bits of my story, especially my experience on The World Race. Recently I have shared the bit of my story related to the Holy Spirit, which is a remarkably controversial topic in the church at large. The retelling of some experiences I’ve had led me to recognize something NEW that the Lord has done in my life. This is where “Transformers” and Romans 12:2 come in.
We claimed that verse as a team, made it our prayer, and LABELED ourselves as Transformers. I look back over the year and clearly the Lord transformed each of us, but that’s not news to me. The revelation here is that we had NO idea what we were claiming over ourselves.
In telling my story, I’ve realize the MOMENT the God literally transformed me, seriously by renewing my mind. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS???? We memorize nice verses, and hold onto fabulous Psalms, but do you recognize that these words are LIVING.
I walked into the room at training camp one night looking like this on the inside: stubborn, impatient, frustrated, proud, unbelieving, and absolutely thinking that anyone who was experiencing the presence of the Holy Spirit was nuts. Over the course of that night I “gave up”. I was tired of trying to “make something happen”. I thought that meant I would just stand there until they let us leave the room. Interestingly enough giving up is quite synonymous with surrendering. OH. OH CRAP! You know what happens when you surrender to the Lord? TRANSFORMATION. God literally brought me to my knees under the weight of his overwhelming presence. He met me in personal way. We laughed together, for minutes, hours, I don’t even know how long. I left the room that night looking like this on the inside: FREE and closer to God than I’d ever been.
Before that moment I was constantly “in my brain” trying to figure everything out. Faith was present, but not very active. At that moment I experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit in a personal way, that I cannot explain, but I also cannot deny. The beginning foundations for walking a life FAITH started in that moment.
I gave up me,
and gained my inheritance in Christ.
