Transformation__February_2018
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<strong>Transformation</strong> 22<br />
Do not conform<br />
yourselves to this age<br />
but be transformed by<br />
the renewal of your<br />
mind, that you may<br />
discern what is the will<br />
of God, what is good<br />
and pleasing and<br />
perfect (Romans 12:2).<br />
In her book, Matters of the heart,<br />
Juanita Bynum says It is our old<br />
minds that keeps us from functioning<br />
out of the will of God. Our minds need<br />
to be transformed constantly by a<br />
process of renewing according to the<br />
above scripture. Whatever we do now,<br />
should not conform to this worlds way<br />
of thinking. In order to be transformed,<br />
we must renew our minds every day.<br />
When the renewed mind lines up with<br />
conversion that is in our hearts, we<br />
become new creatures inside out. The<br />
only way our renewed minds can fail to<br />
come into harmony with our new hearts<br />
is by our choice. We must choose<br />
whether to follow the stubborn habits<br />
that are stored in our memories or to<br />
submit to the wisdom that flows out of<br />
our new hearts."<br />
Though in the world, we are<br />
not of the world, and are not<br />
supposed to agree with the<br />
worlds way of doing things.<br />
We must renew our minds so<br />
that we can be in a position<br />
to discern what is good,<br />
acceptable and the perfect will<br />
of God.<br />
The Good Will<br />
Now the serpent was more subtle than any<br />
other wild creature that the Lord God had<br />
made. He said to the woman, “Did God say,<br />
‘you shall not eat of any tree of the<br />
garden?’” And the woman said to the<br />
serpent, “we may eat of the fruit of the trees<br />
of the garden; but God said, ‘you shall not<br />
eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the<br />
midst of the garden, neither shall you<br />
touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said<br />
to the woman, “you will not die, for God<br />
knows that when you eat of it your eyes<br />
will be opened, and you will be like God,<br />
knowing good and evil.” So when the<br />
woman saw that the tree was good for food,<br />
and that it was a delight to the eyes, and<br />
that the tree was to be desired to make one<br />
wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she<br />
also gave some to her husband, and he ate.<br />
Then the eyes of both were opened, and<br />
they knew that they were naked; and they<br />
sewed fig leaves together and made<br />
themselves aprons (Genesis 3:1-7).
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