- Seeing Ourselves to Free Ourselves
We cannot be freed from what we cannot first see. One of the most profound truths Christ invites us into is the awakening of perception — a shift from unconscious reaction to conscious awareness. Jesus often said, “He who has eyes to see, let him see,” not because people lacked eyesight, but because we were blind to ourselves.
When we learn to see ourselves — truly see — we step out of automatic living and into sacred participation. We begin to notice how our thoughts shape our days, how our fears script our choices, how our wounds speak louder than our intentions. In that moment of seeing, the prison door swings open. We realize we are not our habits, not our histories, not our illusions. We are the ones who perceive them — and therefore, we are capable of changing them.
This is the first step of transformation: to behold ourselves in the light of God and allow that light to reveal both the brokenness that binds us and the belovedness that calls us forward. Seeing ourselves is not weakness; it is strength. It is the moment we stop being puppets to our patterns and become participants in God’s redemptive story.
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2. Living in Two Realms
Once our sight is awakened, we begin to perceive a deeper truth: we are living in two realms simultaneously. Jesus described this reality when He said, “My Kingdom is not of this world,” and yet taught us to pray, “on earth as it is in heaven.”
We exist in the seen and the unseen, the above and the below, the inner and the outer. There is the mental realm — the invisible landscape of thought, belief, imagination, and spirit — and the physical realm — the tangible world of body, circumstance, and action. These are not separate universes but two dimensions of one reality, woven together by divine design.
Our suffering often arises when we confuse them — when we believe the physical world is all there is, or when we try to escape into the spiritual to avoid the physical. Yet Christ calls us to live as bridges between both, bringing heaven’s wisdom into earth’s struggles and embodying spiritual truths in physical acts of love.
The gift is not merely in recognizing that two realms exist, but in knowing that we have the power to perceive both — and to walk consciously in the space between them. That ability is not a flaw; it is a feature of our design. It is how we mirror the nature of Christ Himself, who was both fully God and fully human.
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3. Words as the Pen of Creation
“In the beginning was the Word…” — this is no mere metaphor. God created through speech, and the Word itself became flesh in the person of Jesus. Words shape reality because they carry intention and reveal the state of the heart. As Jesus taught, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.”
Our language is more than communication; it is creation. Every word we speak is a brushstroke on the canvas of our reality, a line written into the story of who we are becoming. When we become conscious of this, we realize that our words can enslave us to fear or set us free in faith.
This is why rewriting the backdrop of the mind is so essential. If our inner language is filled with lies, shame, and scarcity, our outer life will echo the same. But if our words are renewed — shaped by grace, truth, and the promises of God — then new realities become possible.
The Word of God is not only written in Scripture; it is written through us. Our task is to align our words with His — to let our speech become the pen through which heaven writes itself into earth.
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4. The Body as the Living Archive
The transformation God invites us into is not confined to thought or language; it extends to the body itself. Scripture calls our bodies temples of the Holy Spirit — living sanctuaries where God’s presence dwells.
The body is not passive in this story. It holds memory. It remembers trauma and tenderness, fear and faith. It carries the imprints of generations — the unspoken stories of our ancestors, the echoes of our experiences, the scripts that were written into us long before we had words to name them.
But the body is also capable of redemption. When the Spirit moves, healing does not stop at the level of belief — it moves deeper, into cells and sinew, into heartbeat and breath. Even the marrow of our bones is not beyond His reach. As the Word pierces soul and spirit, it also penetrates joints and marrow, separating what is false from what is true and infusing us with new life.
To be transformed is not merely to think differently but to embody differently — to let God’s truth inhabit our posture, our reflexes, our nervous system, our very physiology.
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5. Wilderness: God’s School of Formation
To understand how deeply God works in this transformation, we need only look to Israel’s forty years in the wilderness. When God delivered His people from Egypt, the exodus was not the end of the story but the beginning of formation.
The wilderness was not punishment; it was preparation. God was not simply taking His people out of Egypt — He was taking Egypt out of His people. Centuries of slavery had shaped their thoughts, reflexes, fears, and identities. They knew how to be slaves but not how to be sons. They understood survival but not covenant.
So, in the desert, God began rewriting the backdrop of their minds. He trained them in trust with daily manna. He gave them commandments to form a new moral consciousness. He dwelt among them as cloud and fire to teach them His presence. Slowly, generation by generation, their thinking was renewed.
And God healed more than their minds. The wilderness became a place of physical restoration. Despite the harsh conditions, their clothes did not wear out and their bodies did not fail. Trauma that had lived in their flesh and marrow was being replaced with divine strength. Fear was exchanged for faith, scarcity for sufficiency.
Most importantly, the wilderness reshaped their identity. They were no longer slaves defined by their oppressor; they were a chosen people defined by their covenant with God. The desert was God’s classroom — the first great act of spiritual formation, preparing His people not just for a promised land but for a promised identity.
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6. Spirit in the Marrow
When Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit — the Helper, the Spirit of Truth — He revealed the deepest dimension of transformation: God does not merely speak to us; He indwells us. The Spirit is not an external force but an interior presence, alive within the very fabric of our being.
This is where all the strands of our transformation converge. The mind can be renewed. The body can be healed. The soul can be sanctified. But only the Spirit can bring them into unity. The Spirit speaks when language fails. The Spirit brings peace where trauma once lived. The Spirit writes God’s law not on tablets of stone but on the flesh of our hearts.
Even in the marrow — the hidden, inner place where blood is born and life begins — the Spirit is present. It is there that divine identity takes root, that new creation begins its quiet work. We are no longer trying to reach God; God is already written into the story of us.
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7. Freedom in Christ
The arc of transformation is not self-improvement — it is union. We are not climbing toward God; we are awakening to the God who has come to dwell within us. We see ourselves not to condemn but to be liberated. We perceive two realms not to escape one for the other but to bring them into harmony. We speak new words because the Word Himself speaks through us. We heal the body because the Spirit has made it a temple.
Christ is the thread that binds it all. He is the Light that enables us to see. He is the Word that shapes reality. He is the Spirit that fills our marrow. He is the one who leads us through wilderness, who rewrites our minds, who calls us sons and daughters.
And in Him, we find the greatest truth of all: we are not bound by our past, not defined by our patterns, not limited by our wounds. We are free — fully, irrevocably free — because the Son has set us free. And now, with eyes open and hearts awakened, we walk forward as co-authors of God’s story, living testaments to His grace, written not with ink but with Spirit.
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Final Thought:
This is the journey Christ calls us into — from blindness to sight, from bondage to freedom, from word to marrow. It is not a theory or a metaphor. It is the real, embodied process by which heaven takes root on earth — in us, through us, and all around us.
With grace and presence,
Kellie J. Wright
Transformation Guide | Author | Speaker
Creator of Internal Journeys™ Internal Narcissus™ Internal Narcissa™
Host of the From Light to Christ™ Podcast
“Truth and beauty are only a flip of the switch away.”
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