Transformation!

I should have posted this yesterday, but since i was moving and packing i got lazy. But one theme that keeps reoccuring in my life is how God transforms people. This thought first hit me during last week's sermon verses (2 Kings 5:1~14). The basic story is Naaman is this army leader who has leprosy. He wants to get healed so he goes to meet Elisha. Elisha then sends his servant who tells Naaman to wash in the river 7 times. Naaman is pissed as he was expecting Elisha to come out and wave his hands and pray over him, but he still does it and is healed.

We are like Naaman sometimes, when we want to be transformed we expect God to do it in a miraculous way (like how Naaman wanted a crazy hand waving and praying) or a sudden thunderous change. However, sometimes God works in small and ordinary ways (like how a Naaman just needed to wash his wounds like he always did, but with FAITH) but the results are even better and longer lasting than any miraculous change. In my life i have started trying to notice God in my ordinary daily life (hence the moving day post...). I believe God is calling for a transformation in OUR faith, but not through EXTRAordinary measures, but simply through seemingly ordinary ways. 

Ed's sharing was a complete confirmation of this for me, especially when he shared about his trip. "It wasn't a trip about burning bushes, but how his life collided with theirs." Ed's verse was money:

The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
- 1 King 19:11-13