Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Conform- to fashion or shape one thing to be like another. ·

Transform- to change into another form; to be transformed into something different.

God commanded Israel to practice NOT, nor imitate the practices of their surrounding nations. They were God's people, therefore, their character and behavior MUST exemplify who they belonged to and not who they are surrounded by.

There are all kinds of pressure in the world today that is trying to make all of us a product of it. The danger of conformity is it leads one to do what they know is wrong and it never tells you how far it will take you nor of the painful consequences that comes along with it.

The good news on today is that we have "choice." We are conformed to the likeness of Christ by spirit lead thinking. Romans 10:17-Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

Scripture puts it like this in Colossians 3:1-2- “Seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

The world’s ways and the world’s values, are not God’s ways and values. Stand firm on what you know to be true in God's Word.

When our minds have truly been transformed into the likeness of Christ, there is evidence that the perfect will of God for our lives is not only lived out before the world to see, but pleasing in the eyes of God also.

It is time for Christians to dare to be different. To stand firm and hold true to the Gospel we confess and the God we claim to love.

To whom do you follow? The Word or the world?

God bless!

Debra

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