Not Yet Me

Over the last year plus I've been on a journey to better health, working to exercise, eat right, lose weight. This week when observing my physical progress the phrase came to mind, "I'm not yet the me I want to be."

Originally I had in mind my body and how I hope to improve it even more, but then I realized it also applies to my whole personhood. I believe God isn't finished with me yet, "being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:6

I'm not yet the me I want to be.

I believe God has a marvelous me in mind, one totally conformed to the image of Christ. That won't be fully realized until I see Christ face to face in heaven, but I am holding on to hope that each day I get closer.

It's not that I have "backslidden" in the ways we usually think of that term, falling into some kind of sinful abyss. But I continue to struggle to be the fully selfless creation God expects of me.

I'm going to like me a lot more when I'm fully reformed. You are too. Meanwhile, I keep trying to make progress, hoping to be closer this day than last, this year than last. Thank the Lord for the patience, grace and mercy extended. God could give up on us all like he did those of Noah's generation, for every inclination of the human heart is toward evil. O to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be.

I look forward to that new me. Bring it on Lord.