RTW October 13

Conform Or Transform

So if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand or one foot than to be thrown into eternal fire with both of your hands and feet.
Matthew 18:8

 

 

My Takeaways

Something Old

Romans 12:1-2

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. (NLT)

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. 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. (The Message)

Something New

The way I see it we have two choices: to be conformed or transformed

  • soos-khay-mat-id’-zo   (Suess hay ma tid zo):
    Conformed: to conform one’s self (i.e. one’s mind and character) to another’s pattern, (fashion one’s self according to)
  • met-am-or-fo’-o   (met a mor fo o)
    Transformed: to change into another form, to transform, to transfigure
    Transformed after being with

We wont be tripping anyone if we are being transformed.

Something to Do

Adjust the dial. Change the channel. Pick up the Book. Block that site. Go to a different place for dinner. Evaluate those relationships.

 

 

 

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7 Comments

  1. Something to do
    Offer my body, my speech- everything that I say to Christ. Oh May that never happen to me that someone asks are you a Christian?!
    It has become extremely difficult as a Christian young single woman in today’s culture. I wonder does anyone refrain from intimacy until marriage.

    1. Franchesca, let me encourage you sister – YES there are young AND old that still CHOOSE to honor God by abstinence. While it has become the “norm to conform” in today’s culture, our God gives grace and strength to those who do choose to honor that boundary. I am one of those, at age 64 believe it or not! I just got married 3 weeks ago but that was something precious to wait for. My nephew and his fiancee are getting married next year and they also have chosen to wait and are receiving quite a bit of flak. Stand your ground! God will bring that special man into your life that will also choose to honor those boundaries. People will say about you, oh, she’s a Christian 🙂 But the Lord will be very pleased. God bless you sister!

    2. Franchesca, stand your ground!! There are other women, both young and older, who are abstaining until marriage. I know of three right now ranging from 29 to 51. It will be worth the wait as you follow God’s plan for marriage and what He has planned for you in particular!! ?

      (Sorry for the double post!!)

  2. Franchesca, stand your ground!! There are other women, both young and older, who are abstaining until marriage. I know of three right now ranging from 29 to 51. It will be worth the wait as you follow God’s plan for marriage and what He has planned for you in particular!! ?

  3. My Takeaways: Principals To Follow in the Christian Life

    Something Old: Today Jesus’ focus is on the believers. I have a responsiblity to protect, not harm all who believe. Jesus desires all believers to resolve any conflicts within the body prayerfully, with witnesses and a heart full of forgiveness. Jesus does not give believers options. He takes it very serious when believers harm other believers, lack forgiveness, or sin against each other. His strict warnings make me wonder if I cannot handle these situations can I really call myself a Christian?

    Something New: I found it interesting in how the disciples had trouble casting out the demons from the possessed boy due to THEIR lack of faith. Never is it mentioned THAT THE BOY LACKED FAITH. Many faith healers in todays world blame the person with the problem as the reason behind the failure to be healed, but this account in the Bible clearly puts the blame on the believers, the disciples, lack of faith. I pondered over this for awhile and realized many teachings in our world are scripturally incorrect – another reason for me to stay in the word and always measure what people are telling me with what the Bible says. I can’t afford to fall into the trap of false teachings.

    Something To Do: Pray for growing faith that gives me the power to live in the world, but not to become part of the world. Pray that I can have a daily renewing of what it means to Trust in the Lord and do everything I need to do to serve Him and live out the Christian ways.

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