A new year has arrived and most everyone is hoping for a new start in the various ways of improving themselves. We all work hard (at least the first few weeks) to achieve our desired goals and resolutions. However, as Christ’s disciples we have an active spiritual force within us that is constantly working to improve us.

Paul, in exhorting the Corinthian church, said, “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.” 2 Corinthians 3:18

The New Living Translation says, “So, all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His glorious image.”