Change

One evident testimony to our humanity is that we are constantly changing. It is impossible to stay in a static position, because life is a process of continual change. And so, we can never really just be, for we are always becoming a product of our change. We either evolve into better persons with time and experience, or we become complacent and degenerate into a more decadent condition. As free will individuals then, it is ever within our power to choose what we become.
Now while this truth is existentially self-evident, it is also clearly confirmed within the pages of Holy Writ. Out of many Biblical passages, consider the classic one in 2 Corinthians 3:18 NASB “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 (One degree of glory to another) just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”
In view of this unchanging reality of change then, as humans we dare never be satisfied with thinking that we are everything we should be, or we have already become everything we want to be. Rather, we must thank God for the good work he has begun in us, and yet, at the same time live with a healthy sense of personal incompleteness. Therefore, it is accurate to say that true spirituality is less of a fixed position (I am), and more of a progressive fluidity (I am becoming). We do well to remember that although God’s Salvation is celestially complete, terrestrially it is being completed within us.
As paradoxically as it may sound, maintaining a humble I-have-not-yet-arrived attitude is the means to arriving at perfection. Indeed, the ability to accept and celebrate change as an adventure is the path to real living!
-Alfredo Mullet-