Beth Moore - Substance and Shadow - Part 2

If we were going for the substance and not the shadow, we would become more like the substance than the shadow. But here's what happens. Here's what happens. When we become more religious, yet less Christ-like, we are attending to shadows, and have swapped them for substance. You can take it to the bank. It will happen every single time. If we get more and more religious and less and less Christ-like, we have taken part in the Great Swap.

This is a very important point we're making. Shadows can be wonderful things, but they are not the substance. Let me say that again. Shadows can be gorgeous, meaningful, they can tell us so much. This shadow tells me so much about this right here, but it's not the same thing. I can't move it, I can't hold it. Good things, but not the thing, not the substance.