Before & After

Whether it’s a diet plan, plastic surgery, beauty make-up, body cream, skin care products or hair products, there is always a before and after story that sells. Imagine the picture of an obese woman and right next to it is another picture of the same woman who had lost about 20kg all in 10 days all by a diet plan. Wow!!! I hear you say right, my exact reaction when I see such advertisement.

Whatever the product or service that is being sold, it tells a transformation story. It tells that you can change what you do not like about yourself, and that it can happen in the shortest of time.

But I even have a greater and more captivating story of transformation than all of those. This story has rocked my world and never left me the same again. It happened 2000 years ago, and it is still happening as I write this, and it will continue to happen. It is not a get rich quick phenomenon or a lose 20kg in 10 days story.

It is a transformation story told by Jesus on the cross, as each nail pierced into his hands, and each drop of blood and water fell from his body. Each of those drops spoke about you and was for you.

A transformation story of grace, that takes you the way you are (despaired, broken, sick, lost, damaged, blind, rejected, disappointed, disillusioned, etc.), and transforms you into who you ought to be (healed, restored, victorious, winner, focused, found, renewed, accepted and loved).

A story that gives you an after - of victory, power, redemption, healing, peace and love, not a face lift surgery; But it lifts the whole of you from the miry clay and sets you upon a solid rock.

It is not a weight loss regime; but it carries every weight and burden you ever carried. It is not a beauty make over transformation; but it beautifies your spirit, soul and mind, and trust me your body is not left out.

So you are here today. You have a before story, you can also have this after story of transformation and grace.

Probably you have already experienced this transformation; once you were lost now you are found, once you were blind but now you see.  As you live this transformed life, share this story with someone who has not heard, don’t keep it yourself alone.

God Bless.

Shalom

You Are Made For More!