the same. They used this fact to exchange lives for a time. As the

story plays out, there are many moments of tension because one person is

impersonating another and doesn’t have the history or experience of the

person they are pretending to be. The pauper finds the

responsibilities of the prince to be overwhelming, even though the life

he experiences is privileged. If you were to try to pretend to be

someone else, it probably wouldn’t take long for someone who knows that

other person to recognize that you are not them. For believers, we walk

through this world knowing that we want people to see Jesus. But

sometimes, what happens in debatable matters is that we revert to our

humanity and try to make people see what we think they need. We do this

in spite of the fact that God’s Word and our own experience is clear:

transformation does not happen by the skill or will of man. It is

something only God’s Spirit can do in people. What would it look like

if we left the Spirit’s work to the Spirit?