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[Written December 31, 2020]

As this year winds down and another begins, I’ve been reflecting on the cultural obsession with change and transformation that each new year warrants. I’ve come to understand that Christ chooses to work and live in the humility of our daily mundane, as He surrendered Himself to the mundane of His physical time also. 

The mundane of our daily lives is where effective progress lies. Not in the seemingly big moments of life alone, but in the small moments that invite subtle, but real change to take root.

For years I believed the lie that transformation was an event. That it was instantaneous and freely willed by myself. I can see now how unbiblical that notion is. It’s little wonder why I failed to change each time I tried. No, Jesus is in every moment, big or small, and His grace is for every continuous moment. 

If the small moments of my day are willed to Jesus every day, the result can only be transformation. It’s a simple concept, but what complicates it is that temptations are as available and as real as God’s grace. Both processes are true in that you can choose either, but of course they are entirely opposite entities: one denies transformation, while the other enables it.

Thus sustained transformation, or active transformation, cannot occur in a changing of a year, or of a month, or of a moment’s impulse. Entirely oppositely, transformation is sustained even more significantly through the daily recognition of the mundane and our every choice to honour God through it. 

So much more lasting to God and ourselves is this acknowledgment of the meek yet impactful moments of life; which when sustained, surpasses the stamina of even the most resolute New Years resolution. 

Every moment is meaningful as every New Year is meaningful. That is the grace of true and lasting transformation.