Good day! Continuing with Rom 12:1-2....today I'll share it in the, but if you missed yesterday, please do check it out as I list the Message version of this verse. It's pretty powerful!
12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. ******************************************************* Taken from my QT journaling this morning..... When offering myself up, it should become more apparent that I am different—I am a daughter of the Most High. This should serve as a constant reminder that I should not get caught up in the culture of this world. Since ages back, culture has embraced self-worship, self-absorption, and lavish living. Paul warns us to beware—to not “conform” to this world, but to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind”. Transformed in Strong’s means to change or to transfigure, primarily a reference to Christ’s transfiguration. How awesome! I am to change, and ultimately I will be transfigured to perfection at the end times! In the meantime, I can continue to change, be transformed, to a righteous daughter. The “renewing of your mind” caught my attention. Renewing could mean renew, or renovation—a renovation—a redo of what is already there. God can work with what is in me, and renovate me to something lovely and wonderful. The same foundation and bones, but a new face and perspective with which I can face this world and this culture of temptation. So, I would like to sum this up in Chrissy-speak. I am to take my every word, thought or action, even the mundane, aggravating, droll, or plain as can be activities, and offer them up—deliberately—as a sacrifice of worship to my Father. This is my everyday, logical way to serve and minister to the world around me. In doing this, I shall be constantly reminded to refrain from becoming sucked in by the culture of the world. As I continue to present every aspect of my being as an act of worship, I will be inching towards the perfection I will become in the presence of the Most High at the end of days, and the old, cracked and desperate brick and mortar of my mind will be patiently torn down and renovated to a new and lovely structure that reflects and welcomes my Jesus. Amen! |
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