Whose Tune?

​In Christian circles we use our own language. Terms like resurrection, justification are a few of the terms that have been appropriated to give form to the theology (another one, meaning conversation or understanding of God), but for my money my favourite must be ‘sanctification’. That would be a killer triple letter word score in scrabble if it were possible.

​Sanctification is the process in which the Holy Spirit takes responsibility for transforming us into the likeness of the Holy Spirit. To simplify allow me to use another type of example that may help us understand how this is done.
Sympathetic resonance is when a one object such as a crystal glass vibrates to a certain tonal pitch. We have all seen the cartoons where the large opera lady hits the crescendo note at the end shattering all the spectacles and windows in the opera house. Try this next time you are near a piano, without striking, hold down the high g key on the piano, then strike the lower G key. Both will sound out. The vibration will make the held down note sound because it is built with that frequency.
Likewise, we are all built in God’s image (Gen 1:26) so we carry all similar characteristics of God. Everybody in this world you come eyeball to eyeball with is built in His image.
A few years back I was fortunate enough to travel to Scotland and outside of Glasgow I met some very distant relatives. Anne, a woman closer in age to my grandmother met us at her place. Anne was close to five foot and talked like a machine gun with a thick Glaswegian accent. As I was leaving, she commented on how much in my height, looks, humour and the way I held myself reminded her of her brothers. Generations and continents separated us but somehow, I have carried the Maharey family likeness forward. It made me think how much of our makeup is attributed to what we carry from our Heaven Father, how much more do we have in common with Him?
The Holy Spirit uses that Father shaped likeness when we accept the truth about Jesus. The Spirit plays the perfect pitch of God’s tune, and if we chose to emulate that, and allow ourselves to be moved and shaped by that, we can be transformed so that we harmonically resemble and project what the Father is to those around us.
That is the desire of the Father, that we continue to become more like His son Jesus. Now it’s important to note here that God isn’t wanting us to be mini-Jesus’ clones, He has after all made us all very unique in our traits and abilities. No, what God desires is that when we become more like who He created us to be, more like who He intended for us to be by saying yes and being obedient to the Holy Spirit and putting to death our fleshly ‘selfish’ part of us, the more like Jesus we will become, polished and ready to reflect the Glory of God to the broken world around us.
Whose tune are you resonating? The perfect pitch of the Lords or the off key the world drones out around?
 
Dave Maharey