It's time for another daily encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

Today's reading titled Joyful Learning was written by Jennifer Benson Schultt.

In the city of Mysore India, there's a school made of two refurbished train cars connected

end-to-end. Local educators teamed up with the Southwestern Railway Company to buy and

remodel the discarded coaches. The units were essentially large metal boxes, unusable, until

workers installed stairways, fans, lights, and desks.

Workers also painted the walls and added colorful murals inside and out.

Now, 60 students attend classes there because of the amazing transformation that took place.

Something even more amazing takes place when we follow the Apostle Paul's command in Romans

12 to be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

As we allow the Holy Spirit to uncouple us from the world and its ways, our thoughts and

attitudes begin to change.

We become more loving, more hopeful, and filled with

inner peace. Something else happens too. Although this transformation process is ongoing and often has more

steps and starts than a train ride, the process helps us understand what God wants for our lives. It takes us to a place where

we will learn to know God's will. Learning his will may or may not involve specifics, but it always

involves aligning ourselves with his character and his work in the world.

Nellie Cully, the name of the transformed school in India,

means joyful learning in English.

How's God's transforming power leading you to the joyful learning of his will? Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Romans chapter 12, verses 1 through 3.

Therefore, I urge you brothers and sisters in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.

This is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed

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