For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son…  Romans 8:29

Henry Ford, as the story is told, hired an electrical wizard to repair one of his huge electrical motors.  Charlie Steinmetz came, found the problem, repaired it and sent Mr. Ford a bill for $10,000.00.  Henry Ford could not imagine such a large expense for “a little bit of tinkering.”  Surely Charlie placed too many zeros on his invoice.  Mr. Steinmetz’s response to Henry was simple: $10.00 for “tinkering” and $9,990.00 for “knowing where to tinker.”

In order for God to conform us to His image it takes a bit of tinkering.  I imagine it to be something like Holy Spirit crawling down into the sewers of our soul to remove that which does not honor Him in order to rebuild and conform us to that which does honor Him.  While all of us desire change to happen instantly, so much of being conformed takes a life time.  

We all have a past, but when we came to Jesus, the cross made the difference between us and our histories.  Jesus became a curse for us so that we could become redeemed from the curse (Gal. 3:13).  The cross separated us from, “…the empty way of life handed down to [us]” (I Pet. 1:18).  And, we were made alive, our sins forgiven…taken away and nailed to the cross (Col. 2:13-14).  Jesus is the great Counselor and we celebrate Easter this weekend becasue His tomb is empty and He is alive!

Ask the Holy Spirit, the One whom Jesus sent, to continue to conform your life today – He knows exactly where to tinker.