More than meets the eye…

The title to this blog post is the tagline to the Transformers franchise. I’m writing about Transformers (no, not the electrical one for changing voltages), because my son and daughter just received a surprise bag of some vintage and nearly new Transformers for them to play with. They loved them and were very eager to play and ‘transform’ these toys.

The Transformer toy line has been around since 1984 when it was created by Bob Budiansky and Nobuyuki Okude as a joint American Japanese venture between Hasbro (USA) and Takara Tomy (Japan). I grew up with Transformers and in fact if you ever visit the Llandudno Youth for Christ offices, you’ll see 4 vintage Transformer toys from my childhood on display above my desk. Transformers are robots that ‘transform’ into various vehicles and objects, they are ‘robots in disguise’ (another tagline for them). Some are easy to transform, whilst others are quite tricky and complex.

Indeed, 2 of the new Transformers my son had were so tricky that even I didn’t know how to transform them from vehicle mode to robot mode. I needed either a direct line to the toys’ creators or at the very least the instruction manuals.

This struggle with the transformers sparked something in me, and whilst I was praying at Redefine, I kept on getting images of Transformers in my head and realised God was trying to tell me something. So I listened more intently to what the Spirit of God was telling me.

I felt God was saying that as human beings we are even more complex than Transformers and that we need both the Creator and the instruction manual in order to be transformed. God was reminding me that it was His job and responsibility to bring the transformation in our lives and that we cannot do that on our own, but by letting God transform us by His presence and His word (the Bible).

I was really encouraged by this and by these words from Psalm 139:13-16.

“¹³You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside
    and my intricate outside,
    and wove them all together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex!
    Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking.
    It simply amazes me to think about it!
    How thoroughly you know me, Lord!
¹⁵ You even formed every bone in my body
    when you created me in the secret place,
    carefully, skillfully shaping me from nothing to something.
¹⁶ You saw who you created me to be before I became me!
    Before I’d ever seen the light of day,
    the number of days you planned for me
    were already recorded in your book.”

Remember there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to you. God has made you and He doesn’t make mistakes. He created you and He knows what you need.

This week as you meditate on the above truth, please be praying for the young people that attend the different events we hold. Pray that they would come to realise that they are a beloved and unique creation of a loving and unique Creator, God.

Be blessed.