Verse of the Day 5/25

Verse of the Day 5/25            

Romans 12:2

 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.                                                                                                 English Standard Version

One of the "catchwords" that is often heard these days is "re-imagine".  In actuality it is a call to change the way we think of certain things.  Most often it is not a subtle change but almost a 180 degree change.  It is a call for "new" thinking and to do away with the old.  This permeates many facets of our culture including religion and faith.

Today's verses show us how transformation takes place, it is when we place our faith and trust in God's Word, our minds can be transformed by being renewed.  It is going back to the way it should be.  It is finding the right  path.  I'm sure that you can come up with other verses to support this.

David Jeremiah writes, "American brothers John and Isaiah Hyatt changed the world in 1872 by inventing the injection molding process. Through this process, plastics and other materials can be heated and forced into a mold. Once cooled, a perfectly formed object appears. Every day we pick up something created by injection molding. ....When English scholar J. B. Phillips was looking for a way to paraphrase Romans 12:2 for The New Testament in Modern English (1958), the image of a mold came to mind: "Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within." The word "squeeze" pictures the pressure that is constantly exerted by sin (the flesh), the world, and the devil. The mold of the world takes many shapes, but none of them are original. They all question the authority of God—attempting to discount God's Word and excluding Him from our priorities. As Satan said to Eve, "Has God indeed said?" (Genesis 3:1)."

It is another one of those times where we need to choose where we form our ideas.  Are we being forced into the mold of the world or are our hearts and minds being renewed, refreshed, restored by spending time in God's Word and in prayer and in applying the time tested truths in our lives?

Blessings, 

Mike 

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Romans 12:1-8
New King James Version
12 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. 2 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.
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.