The following piece is an excerpt from my book Walking the Walk by Faith. Enjoy and be blessed.
by Mike Ratliff
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:1-2 NKJV)
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:18)
I’m not a huge movie buff, but I really like movies or stories where the main character starts out really messed up or not very nice, but as the story progresses he or she changes for the better. I don’t know why that gets my interest, but it does.
The movie “Groundhog Day” is a good example. Bill Murray’s character in that movie is obnoxious, self-centered and bitter at the beginning of the movie. Interestingly, he knows it. He is a TV weatherman. He is also in love with his producer played by Andie MacDowell. They go to Punxsutawney, PA to cover the Punxsutawney Phil ceremony on Groundhog Day. They cover it, but are stuck in town because of weather problems. For some very weird reason, Bill Murray wakes up the next day and its Groundhog Day again. No matter what he does he’s stuck in this cycle. By the end of the movie he has gone through this hundreds of times. He pursues Andie MacDowell all the way through the movie, but no matter how hard he tries to impress her it never works. <Continue reading post>