Transformation is a process of changing the terrain of a city or country from bad to good. This includes the introduction and completion of developmental projects as well as the transformation of human lives. In terms of human beings, this transformation may either be physical, which may entail changing one’s dress code, some women changing the colour of their hairdos, or spiritual, which is the most important of all.

In spiritual transformation, there must be attitudinal reforms that will lead to drawing the person closer to God. God is interested in this spiritual transformation because this will make an individual to adhere to God’s kingdom principles. Spiritual transformation enables an individual to be interested in the things of God more than the activities that glorify the flesh (Devil). For the spiritual transformation to take place, there must be an impartation of God’s spirit in the person. This spiritual impartation comes through an encounter with our Lord Jesus Christ. In the lead scripture it is written that if any man is in Christ, he becomes a new creature and his old ways of life (mortified) killed and removed. The person would be happy going to the house of God and happily participating in evangelism. He will no longer be interested in taking alcoholic drinks, smoking, fornicating and committing adultery or thinking of how to harm someone.

The world was a perfect place after creation, when man was under the will of God and fellowshipping with Him on daily basis. The principle of heaven was then extended to earth. Unfortunately, Devil came and deceived man to disobey the words of God and this made man to lose that fellowship with God and Devil took over the ruling of the earth. But there was an urgent need to recover the earth from Satan and to make this possible, God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to come to earth to transform people’s mind about God. To do this, He had to die for the sins of the world and through His death take away the sins of the earth and also take those that believe in Him to God. The word of God removes the root of sin in men; it checks the Devil from carrying out his evil enterprises in the hearts of men. An individual has a total transformation when he accepts our Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour and serve God. He has to serve God until he gets to level of living for Christ and thinks of how to be with Him hereafter.

In a letter to the Christians in Colossae, Apostle Paul said in Colossians 3:1-10: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2: Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4: When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5: Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience. 7: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8: But now ye also put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9: Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds. 10: And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.” There will be a renewed life in Christ in which the body is dead to sin and things of the world. The discussion of evil things becomes a taboo amid men. At this time, any man who has been transformed, lives his life for God; putting the things of God first, the salvation of others around him second and putting himself last. When a transformed man speaks, people around him will witness the glory of God. There is a manifestation of the fruits of the spirit in his life and he will do the work of God with ease. God would then use him to heal, bring the dead back to life and perform numerous signs and wonders.

Everyman needs this transformation because we all came into this world through Adam and Eve, and as such were all born with sin. This is why Apostle Paul told the church in Rome in his letter in Romans 3:23-24 saying: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. 24: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”

As each of us has sinned through Adam, the only way to have access to freedom is by accepting our Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Saviour. The definition of sin comes in various forms based on one’s action and inaction. Some of these definitions are:
• In both Hebrew and Greek languages sin means transgression, an overstepping of the law, the divine boundary between good and evil.
• It is referred to as iniquity, an act inherently wrong whether expressly forbidden or not.
• An error, which means the departure from the right.
• Missing the mark, this implies a failure to meet the divine standard.
• Sin is also defined as a trespass, the intrusion of self-will into the divine authority.
• Lawlessness or what could be called the spiritual anarchy, and finally
• Unbelief or an insult to the divine veracity.

Sin originated from Satan and entered the world through Adam and Eve, the first parents of human beings. The punishment for sin is death, except if granted salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ who came to transform man and also wants to take him back to God’s sinless state.

Redemption from sin comes from our Lord Jesus Christ. Man was viewed as a slave sold to sin and under sentence of death according to Ezekiel 18:4. It is only through the redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ that transformation can come to an individual. When one takes the decision to accept Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour, the spirit of God in his heart will be activated to take control of the person and then direct his paths. No one can do it by himself; it must be through the guidance of God’s spirit. Apostle Paul lamented the difficulties of one doing it alone in Romans 7:18-25 (read on your own), when he said: “It is what he does not want to do that he finds himself doing because of the desires of the flesh, but the things of God he wants to do, he finds it difficult to do because the flesh does not want that one.” In order to do the will of God, one needs to subject himself to Christ for total transformation. You cannot do it alone because God’s spirit has to lead you. It is by allowing the spirit of God to rule your life that you will be transformed and you will be led by the spirit of God till you meet Christ to be with Him forever.