Well, it's one of the most fundamental dynamics of our lives.

We are always becoming like what we most adore.

And yet when we look at ourselves, what we adore so often fluctuates in intensity all

throughout the day, and yet in Christ, we are progressing toward a maturity in Him as

we worship Him.

John Piper explains how all of this dynamic works together from 2 Corinthians 3 to 18

in a recent sermon.

Here's what he said.

This is so variable, I'm tempted to say it's if incalculably variable, meaning the morning

and the mid-morning and the noon and the afternoon and the night are all different.

Your heart for God is different at 10 and noon and four and eight.

It's different.

Your emotions are just like this.

Nobody lives like this, nobody.

And from week to week, and month to month, and year to year, and saints are allowed to

move into seasons of great darkness, nights of the soul.

Here's what that verse says, 2 Corinthians 3, 18.

We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into

the same image from one degree of glory to another.

Now notice, beholding the glory of the Lord is a present tense, ongoing action, not a

one-time action, ongoing, and so is being transformed, ongoing, not one time.

So let me read it again with that in mind.

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