Sometimes life can feel a little bit like that - especially, it feels, in my line of work. You have to complete the next assessment, do the next exam, choose your specialist area, apply for the next job to keep in line and to keep up. Or generally in life there is a pattern that we're expected to go; choose the university you will go to, graduate, get a job, get married, buy a house, have children, retire...
Sometimes life just feels like a bit of a conveyor belt.
But sometimes it feels like the merging doesn't come. There are delays or hiccups along the way, along with dashed hopes and unfulfilled desires.
As I pondered this, with the windscreen wipers moaning at me and the stop-start traffic crawling along, I started thinking about other senses of the phrase. There is one type of merging that is sure. It is happening no matter what. It's not mundane though - it's pretty wonderful. As Christians we have a promise given to us from God.
'For those God knew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son' (Romans 8v29)God knows us and is changing us to fall in line with his design for us (see Genesis 1v27). This design is to be like Him (Wow!). This is a forward moving and irreversible trajectory that does not depend on us, but is by the work of the Holy Spirit in us. It will be completed when we meet him in heaven (1 John 3v2).
He knows us intimately and wants what is best for us. If God is working in our lives this way, surely we can see that he has got our humdrum day to day life covered! He knows and cares about our frustrations and longings (Romans 8v28).
So next time you're sat in traffic, think about what God has been doing in your life and the way he is changing the Christians you know. Praise God for his continuing work at merging us in line how we are designed to be.
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