Romans 12:2
“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”
If you are wrestling with a certain problem, thinking “If I could just get through this, everything will be alright”, then you may find this as bad news. In all likely hood, when you conquer this particular problem, God will reveal something new that needs to be dealt with. God will always be working on us, aiding us in our journey to spiritual maturity; becoming all that He wants us to be.
Real change doesn’t come through frustration, self-rejection, guilt, or white-knuckled human effort. Real change comes as a result of having our mind renewed daily by the Word of God (that means our daily reading and study of our Bibles). As we agree with God, believing what He says is true, change will occur. We start to think differently, then talk differently, and finally act differently. As plainly as I can say it, when you spend time with God reading your Bible, it will change you.
But what so often happens is that we become complacent with our lives and routines. We become a run-down version of our formers selves, cracking under the pressure of our daily responsibilities. Often, the first thing that get’s squeezed out of our day is time with God. Then, before we know it, we have no joy, no peace, we begin to feel hopeless, and we wonder what’s happened to us. We think, act, and live no differently than the people around us who don’t know Jesus. GET BACK INTO HIS WORD!
Related Text:
Deuteronomy 11:18-20
“Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates”
SATURATE YOUR LIFE WITH THE HOLY SCRIPTURES FROM GOD’S WORD
