A Spiritual Makeover

Dominating our television screens over the past decade has been lifestyle and reality television shows. Lifestyle programs are those targeting how we construct our daily living, and how we want our wardrobe, home, car, caravan or holiday to be. Perhaps you have an image in your mind of the perfect life and you have used some of the television shows to help you build this dream!

The power of lifestyle programming lies in its ability to present you with a dream that stimulates many senses and instincts, so that your mind can anticipate look, smell, feel and ambience. Furthermore, the television networkers have re-defined an existing word with powerful overtones to draw all our hope and dreams into their particular program; this word is MAKEOVER.

v A person’s face can be reconstructed to give an individual a sense of approval by others.
v A lounge room can be “madeover” so that it reflects your culture and preferences.
v A holiday can be planned so that children get kids stuff, parents get time away, and also the entire family gets time together.

God has a claim on every human soul, and at the centre of His claim is a call to a spiritual makeover. By this, He means that we must relinquish our hold on shaping our morals, ethics, attitudes, behaviours and instincts and allow these to be totally remodelled according to His blueprint. The image of a potter making a mistake with a moist piece of clay, crushing it back to a ball and starting again is helpful in trying to understand how God wants to change our inner life.

Some of this happens the instant we admit our inner sin, hurt and turmoil and reach out to God for salvation through Jesus Christ; however a lot of work remains as we learn to live with God’s Holy Spirit as He works out a new spiritual framework within our spirit.

What is important is to understand the imperative here. This spiritual makeover is an absolute and an essential in Christian spiritual life. It is not an optional extra to faith in Christ and attending church services (both of which are good and noble).

So, how is your spiritual makeover going? Are your hopes dreams, preferences and instincts all informed and inspired by Christ in you through His Spirit?