Being Shaped

I have a pair of work gloves that are just about as comfortable as work gloves can get.


They’re old, but they’ve been broken-in by projects that have shaped them to my hands.

Eventually, they will wear out and I’ll need a new pair. The new ones will feel clumsy until they too have been formed to my hands by work.

In the same way, God enters into us and shapes us.

We are clumsy at first, but the work we do at God’s guidance shapes us to Him until we feel as comfortable as, well, old gloves.

That’s when danger begins.

It is when we get comfortable with God that we are also wearing out.

Part of the Christian life is seeking to always grow, which means that we are always learning to be a new creation, always being shaped to God’s will.