One of my favorite verses in the Bible was referred to in the message this week, Romans 12: 2..."Do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God...what is good and acceptable and perfect."
To love and to stay in love with God is to experience Him and we do that by staying in His will, which takes effort. Loving and staying in love with anyone takes effort and desire and that is what Paul is asking us to do with God. If we conform to the world, we will always be giving up on love., giving up on God and people. We lose patience. We lose trust. We lose desire. The bottom line is, if we conform to the world...WE LOSE!
By renewing our minds and being transformed, we will always be discovering and seeing things and people in new ways and if God is doing the transforming, we will see in good and perfect ways. God wants to be the transforming power in our lives and by the Holy Spirit he renews our minds and transforms us by His Word (The Bible), Prayer, Service To Others, Worship, Giving, and Christian Fellowship. It takes effort but the reward is the transformation that opens up a life of experiencing God himself and experiencing what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Discover and Proclaim the Truth of The Bible which is: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life." (John 3:16 NRSV). Jesus came to humanity to proclaim and give evidence to that love and He has commanded us to do the same. We, who believe, must not merely be followers, but we must be proclaimers of the Gospel Message and we can only do that by being filled with the love of God.
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