{"id":4261,"date":"2009-03-21T20:37:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T00:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=56"},"modified":"2009-03-21T20:37:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T00:37:27","slug":"transformed-by-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/21\/transformed-by-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSFORMED BY INSIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the<br \/>\n     glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; 2 Corinthians 3:1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The outstanding characteristic of a Christian is this unveiled<br \/>\nfrankness before God so that the life becomes a mirror for other<br \/>\nlives. By being filled with the Spirit we are transformed, and by<br \/>\nbeholding we become mirrors. You always know when a man has been<br \/>\nbeholding the glory of the Lord, you feel in your inner spirit that<br \/>\nhe is the mirror of the Lord&#8217;s own character. Beware of anything<br \/>\nwhich would sully that mirror in you; it is nearly always a good<br \/>\nthing, the good that is not the best.<\/p>\n<p>The golden rule for your life and mine is this concentrated keeping<br \/>\nof the life open towards God. Let everything else &#8211; work, clothes,<br \/>\nfood, everything on earth &#8211; go by the board, saving that one thing.<br \/>\nThe rush of other things always tends to obscure this concentration<br \/>\non God. We have to maintain ourselves in the place of beholding,<br \/>\nkeeping the life absolutely spiritual all through. Let other things<br \/>\ncome and go as they may, let other people criticize as they will, but<br \/>\nnever allow anything to obscure the life that is hid with Christ in<br \/>\nGod. Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him. It<br \/>\nis the one thing that is apt to fluctuate but it ought not to. The<br \/>\nseverest discipline of a Christian&#8217;s life is to learn how to keep<br \/>\n&#8220;beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image. &#8212; 2 Corinthians 3:1 The outstanding characteristic of a Christian is this unveiled frankness before God so that the life becomes a mirror for other lives. By being filled with the Spirit we are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}