If you had turned to Romans, the 12th chapter this evening, Romans 122 says,

Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,

that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

The new living says, let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

Are thoughts really that powerful?

That if you change the way you think, you become a different person?

The word transformed here is the word we get our word morph, our metamorphosis from.

It's like what happens from Caterpillar to Butterfly.

You're not just changed a little bit.

You're changed into something different.

We're talking about radical change, major change.

And he says that God transforms us by what?

By the renewing of your mind.

Today's English version says it like this.

Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world.

Let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind.

Then you'll be able to know the will of God what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.

Now, this transforming of who we are, what kind of person we are,

and he's writing to people that were already born again.

This letter is addressed to the saints that were at Rome.

Not only does it change us, but it causes us to be able to discern, ascertain, recognize, be sure about the will of God.

Is this valuable to you?

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