Reflections

For about a year now, God has been tapping on my shoulder to start engaging with others through this virtual public square. As I reflect on this invitation, social media is a mirror where I am met with my resistance, my fear, and my judgment of the impact of this social space on people’s lives. It is far too easy to be swayed by the temptation of screen courage that quickly clicks our way to information and images we cannot undo seeing or reading.

When we spend time with God, sitting at His feet and beholding His face, we are transformed into His image, willing, like Him, to give God our everything. We reflect His image, radiate His presence, like an expensive jar of oil poured out, our lives a fragrant offering to God. God forms and shapes us like clay, crafting us into living vessels that carry and pour out His fragrance to the world around us through our worship. We go out into the world as people who radiate Christ, exuding His fragrance and ready to offer our lives sacrificially as He did.

It is my joy to launch the ministry Renew Formation. After a very long season of prayer and discernment, I am amazed at the journey of how God has led me towards this path in ministry. As some of you may know, my life has been characterized by many moves where God used each transition to evoke the unearthing, healing, transformation and renewal of my soul. In 2007, I followed God’s leading to