Friday February 17 2012
Romans
12:2. “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform
you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do,
and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.”
It sounds as if Paul is
recommending total submission to God here, doesn’t it? We are a rebellious people and as such, we
have a strong desire to follow our own path but we read here that we should let
God transform us into a new person and actually “change” the way we think.
This is totally adverse to what the world is
teaching us today. In our society we are
told to “follow our own dream” and “claim our rights” and be “ourselves” and
“don’t let anyone tell you what to do.” It is considered a weakness to
be submissive in any area of life. We
have preached this to such an extent that it has affected common sense and
manners.
Many of our young people think
it “not cool” to display good manners. The element of respect has all but
disappeared in some of our youth.
Tolerance is the valued idea today and despite the mess our world is in,
there is an evident absence of God and Biblical values taught in our homes and
schools.
No! It is not considered, the
“in” thing to let God tell us how we should think but that is exactly what we
must do. For it is when we are in the
perfect will of God that we find how truly wonderful and pleasing and perfect
his love is to us.
While God is ultimately in
control, our job is to align our own will with his. Seek to do his will, spend time with Him,
communicate with him, get to know him, listen for His voice, search His word
and meditate upon it, learn to live the way He intended for you to live. We know He is a loving God because He IS
love.
Prayer for
today: Heavenly Father, My prayer today is that you will continue to reform me
to what you want me to be. Let me be
pliable so that you can work with me.
Let me be usable to you, Lord. In
Jesus name, Amen.
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