Today’s Verse
“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
The Slow Work of Becoming
Reflecting God isn’t something that happens overnight. It’s not a switch you flip or a decision you make once. It’s a slow, steady transformation that happens as you spend time in His presence, letting Him reshape you from the inside out.
You don’t wake up one morning suddenly patient, kind, and selfless. You become those things gradually, through a thousand small choices to surrender your will to His. Through daily decisions to respond with grace instead of anger, to extend forgiveness instead of holding grudges, to serve instead of demanding to be served.
This is what it means to be transformed into His image, it’s the Spirit doing the long, quiet work of making you more like Jesus. Softening the hard edges. Refining the rough places. Replacing your natural responses with His supernatural character. And it happens not through striving but through abiding, not through trying harder but through staying close.
The goal isn’t perfection, it’s progress. It’s looking back six months from now and realizing you responded differently than you used to. It’s noticing that what once triggered you now rolls off your back. It’s seeing evidence that you’re becoming someone who looks a little more like Jesus than you did before.
Today, don’t be discouraged by how far you still have to go. Celebrate how far you’ve come. Trust that the God who began this work in you will complete it. And keep showing up, keep surrendering, keep letting Him do what only He can do, transform you into His likeness.
Today’s Prayer
Lord, help me be a reflection of all You are, a living mirror that shows the world Your love, Your grace, Your character.
I want my life to point others to You, not to draw attention to myself but to make You visible through the way I live, speak, and love.
Teach me to reflect Your compassion when I encounter hurting people, Your patience when I’m provoked, Your kindness when it would be easier to be harsh.
The world needs to see Jesus, and You’ve chosen to make Yourself known through Your people, through ordinary lives transformed by extraordinary grace.
Help me decrease so You can increase in me, to surrender the parts of my character that don’t look like You, to allow Your Spirit to shape me into Your image.
Remind me that being Your reflection isn’t about perfection but about transparency, letting Your light shine through my cracks, pointing to Your power in my weakness.
Give me awareness of how my words and actions represent You, the courage to live differently because I bear Your name, the humility to remember I’m simply reflecting the glory that’s Yours.
Let my life be a clear reflection of all You are, so that when people encounter me, they encounter something of You, and they’re drawn closer to the Source of all light and love.
In Jesus name,
Amen.