Reflecting the Redeemer

I am reading a book by Susan Hunt and I feel compelled to share with your her insights. The following is from Chapter four from "True Woman".

"The redeemed are to reflect the image of the Redeemer. Neither the syrupy sweetness nor tearful testimonies are a true reflection of redemption.

A true reflection demands the hard stuff of repentance, faith, obedience, and forgiveness. These are not one-time events; they are lifelong processes. To reflect redemption, the true woman must grab the promises of God and integrate them into every aspect of her life. In short, this is the process of sanctification: '...the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.'

When I was young, I used to hear it said sometimes that someone was so heavenly minded they were no earthly good. I don't hear that anymore. I'm glad I don't, because it didn't make sense then, and it doesn't make sense now. As George Grant has said: We cannot be authentically
Christian and simultaneously be so heavenly-minded that we're no earthly good any more than we can be so earthly-minded that we're no heavenly good. The only possibility for us is to be so heavenly-minded that we do the earth good. And that demands a substantive lifestyle balance
where both faith and work are operative, where both holiness and service motivate, where both Word and deed dominate, where the Gospel is proclaimed in both doctrine and life."

Do you have this balance? Are you reflecting the Redeemer?

LDJ