Who are you becoming?

Jamie Phear on how God transforms us through pruning 

Through Lent and Easter I’ve reflected on the deep formation God does within us – pruning, transforming and shaping us to walk as His beloved in every season.

As spring flowers break through the softened ground of May, I think of the little buds bursting from seeds planted long ago. I think of the person I’m becoming as I let the deeper work of God take root within me.

I once heard Dallas Willard say something like: “The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become” (my paraphrase). I return to this often, usually when I slow down enough to notice that I’ve drifted. Because, if I’m honest, I can become so focused on what I’m doing for God that I forget what God is doing in me.