Transformation Through Conforming (Daily Devotional)

Hi everyone, welcome to Living Supernaturally. Thank you once again for giving us this opportunity to minister to you through God’s word and prayer. This week, we are talking about transformation and how God uses different means to transform our lives and this transformation is important because He is changing us from glory to glory. This week, we are talking about transformation through conforming. We read this wonderful verse, Romans chapter 12, verses 1 and 2, ‘I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.’ We all conform to something or someone in our lives. Less than 1% of our thoughts are original. The media play a powerful role in shaping who we are and what we think. We often become what people expect us to be. The apostle Paul coaches us and he exhorts us saying, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. Conforming to the world is like removing the screen door to our minds and letting the bugs fly in. Transformation means refusing to comply to the evil influences of this world and the things that the enemy brings that can destroy our lives. Instead, conforming means to conform to the character of Christ. The exhortation that Paul presents is that since we have been gracious recipients of God’s mercies, we are to be living sacrifices to God. How do we do this? We are living sacrifices to God not by conforming to the world but being transformed by the renewing of our minds. Paul is using the word here to refer to the spirit of the age. We are not conformed to the world which is the spirit of the age. In other words, world refers to the popular world view that rejects God and His revelation. As unbelievers, we are naturally conformed to this world. As believers, we are naturally conformed to Christ. Just as we put on clean clothing after a bath, so we put on Christ. We need to ask Christ to dwell richly so that we can expect joy beyond limits, peace that passes all understanding, hope that overcomes despair and love that allows us to care for people. Today, let us begin to live out the character of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us pray, Father, we thank you for today’s word, we thank you that you are teaching us day after day how to be transformed. This world has so much to offer but your word is greater than anything in this world. Your word says that ‘greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world’ and we pray that you will enable us not to conform to the patterns of this world but to conform to your word that will bring a life transforming change, we give you all the praise and glory, in Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.

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