As we read God’s word, observing to do it, the Holy Spirit highlights truths He wants to work into our lives. Isaiah 32:17 says, “The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.”

I like to think of ‘work’ as a wheel potterer. The dry clay has to be prepared before it can be formed into an object. Once water is worked into it, the saturated clay is malleable. Then the potter has to center it on the wheel which takes even pressure.

So it is with us. Our Potter must work the water of His word deep into every nook and cranny of our hearts. The unresolved issues are exposed as He works to center us upon Himself.

2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” Romans 8:29 says that we are predestined, “…to be conformed to the image of His Son…”