#85 My fair lady(24apr06)

No man also having drunk old wine straightaway desireth new; for he saith, The old is better'
Luke 5:39

Audrey Hepburn, was memorable in her role as the commoner Eliza Doolittle, with the horrendous whining docklands cockney accent, eventually transformed(at least on the outside) into an upper class Queen accented lady, by the phonetics expert, Professor Higgins(aka the actor Rex Harrison)

With Adam's fall, the human race fell from the grace that God has planned for us. Yet, in His wonderful and loving ways, God forgave us and nailed to the cross, death's grip upon our sinfulness.

Salvation is ours, if we are repentant and willing to believe in Jesus Christ, as our Saviour.
With belief, our place in heaven is secured. Yet do many who professes to be Christians, have they truly repented and believed, for God knows our heart??
OR are we the new wine, yet still desirous of living in the old ways of the world, not willing to give up the old wineskin for the new.

'...despise not thou the chastening of the Lord......for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.....'
Hebrews 12:5

The present X or Y??(ie not too sure about classification but lets call them younger) generation believes the world has changed. We the parents(mid-lifers) think the kids today have changed.
Have moral values truly degenerated and the grip of the sinful world on the very soul of our children that much tighter, because we the parents have not walked right with God??

'Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness ...'
Hebrews 12:11

Lately, I count myself blessed to be able to be working with relatively young adults(between age 11-21) in their journey with the Lord. At this age, the shoots of such young lives are starting to spring forth to the world, absorbing both nutrients and toxic matter.

'Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet. Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord;
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children. And the heart of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse'
Malachi 4:5-6


Much as I might like to think otherwise, I am no angel, nor Elijah nor any of the people of God in the Bible. Yet, clearly, the world is on the slippery slope. Teen pregnancies, addiction, dis-jointed families, immoral materialism, serious mental and physical ailments have become the norm rather than the exception.
I have no comparable statistics to show what was a couple of generations back,but clearly, the grime is everywhere today.

'The rod and rebuke give wisdom. But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother'
Proverbs 29:15

God is tranforming us into His likeness. Yet, we often resist

'Abide in Me and I in you'
John 15:4

God is transforming the younger generation too. Often we insists our wards fit the mould of our ideal.
The rain in Spain might fall only in the plains. But with God, His grace and refinement is upon us all. Are you willing to be not just tranformed on the outside, but most importantly, on the inside??

There is only one Elijah in the Bible. Yet, we all can be the Christ-like person God wants us to be. How??

'But whenever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away'
2 Corinthians 3:16

'And we who with unveiled faces all reflect, the Lord's glory, are being transformed unto His likeness...'
2 Corinthians 3:18

'Let the light of Your face shine upon us O Lord'
Psalm 4:6

God Blesses

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