In our media-saturated age, image consultants have become indispensable. Entertainers, athletes, politicians, and business leaders seem desperate to manage the way they are perceived in the eyes of the world. These high-priced consultants work to shape how their clients are viewed - even if sometimes there is a stark contrast between the public image and the real person inside.
In reality, what people need - what all of us need - is not an external makeover but an inner transformation. Our deepest flaws cannot be corrected cosmetically. They are directly related to who we are in heart and mind, and they reveal how far we have fallen from the image of God in which we were created. But such transformation is beyond any human ability to accomplish.
Only Christ offers us true transformation - not just a facelift or an outward adjustment. Paul said that those who have been raised to eternal life in Christ "have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator" (Col. 3:10). New! What a tremendous word full of hope! Christ transforms us into new people in Him - people with a new heart, not just fixed up to look good on the outside. The Spirit develops in us the clear image of Christ.
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