Devotional.
I can't believe my two boys are already 2 and 4. It's going so fast.
I catch myself wondering who Theo and Jesse will become.
What work they'll do when they're grown, and whether they'll find something they love or just something that pays the bills.
What I care about more is what kind of people they'll be. I hope they'll be kind and honest, and that they'll know God for themselves.
None of it is happening yet. They're small, and the men they'll grow into are years away. Still, I want to know how it all turns out.
When I turn the question on myself, it sounds familiar. I'm not sure who I'm becoming either.
I look at the gap between the person I am and the person I'd like to be, and I treat it like a job running behind schedule, one that's mine to close.
Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, "But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit."
The encouraging part of that verse for me is who does the changing. We keep our eyes on the Lord, and the Spirit does the transforming, a little at a time.
That loosens my grip on the boys' future.
Their becoming started with God before it ever started with me, and He is the one shaping them into His image.
I get to love them, teach them, pray for them every day and point them to Jesus so they can see Him for themselves.
Writing the ending was never my job, and I'm glad, because His endings are better than mine. It loosens my grip on my own future too.
So if all you can see in the mirror today is the gap, hear this:
You are not a project God is getting tired of.
He isn't standing over you with a clipboard, waiting for you to catch up.
He made you on purpose. He knows exactly who you're becoming, and He has never once looked at you without seeing the crown.
The slow seasons count. The days you feel stuck count.
The Spirit is working in all of it, from glory to glory, and He doesn't leave things half done.
You are becoming who God created you to be. Keep your eyes on Jesus, and He'll take care of the rest.
Prayer.
Lord, I am becoming who You created me to be, and that journey of transformation is both humbling and hopeful.
I've spent too long trying to become who others expect, who the world says I should be, or who I think would be more acceptable.
Teach me that You had a specific design in mind when You made me, a purpose woven into my DNA, a calling that fits me uniquely.
Becoming who You created me to be isn't about achieving perfection but about shedding the false versions, the masks, the pretending, and embracing my true identity in You.
Help me trust the process of becoming, knowing that transformation takes time, that You're still working on me, that I'm not finished yet and that's okay.
Remind me that who You created me to be is royalty, a child of the King, beloved and chosen, valuable not because of what I do but because of whose I am.
Give me courage to step into this identity fully, to stop hiding the parts of me You designed with intention, to live authentically as the person You made me to be.
Let me embrace the becoming, celebrating each step forward, each layer shed, each glimpse of who I was always meant to be in Christ.
In Jesus' name,
Amen.
