Today we continue with Georges Boujakly’s keys to spiritual transformation.
Spiritual transformation has a specific goal.
You notice in the third and fourth key to spiritual transformation is the very important word goal. However, better than the word goal might be the word end. The Greek noun for end is telos. The adjective is the word telic.
Spiritual transformation as the work of God has an end or is telic. God always works with some end in mind. He creates to express his love. He redeems to express his love; to show his mercy, to give us hope (See Deut. 7:7-8 and Titus 3:4-7).
What these two random passages show is that when God acts in the human arena it is always with an end in mind. God is a community of love. Love must express itself or it is not love. God does not act just because he can. He acts with something specific in mind.
This is comfortingly sane. To know that the community of love that put me together intends for me to be in relationship with God (to be a recipient of divine love) settles the most important questions in life. Who Am I? Why Am I here? What should I do with my life? Who is a good person? How do I become good? Questions philosophy has asked throughout history. These questions get absorbed in the reality of God’s love for me. Spiritual transformation is done with an end in mind.