i have spent several days thinking about "DO NOT be conformed to this world" can't very well take it out of context as one person said i was. And it is rather hard to miss understand as another person told me, "You miss understood what the Lord is really saying”, but yet couldn't explain it in any other way. Except; DO NOT be conformed to this world.
So i thought to find out what i am not to be conformed to i would look at what the world has and wants us to be conformed to and then do the opposite. Things the world has to offer and expects us to accept are so vast and some are so minute it could take a life time just to explain and write them down; So instead i felt i should just look at what the bible says we should be conformed to, so far that seems to be a rather short list, we are to be conformed into the image and person of Jesus Christ!
Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren;
Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
To walk the narrow path seems to have a simple guide line be like Jesus! But being like Jesus will be the difficult thing, because growing up in America we are taught to take control of our lives. Jesus put His in the hands of Father God and gave Him control of His, so that is what i must also do.
(1). Give God my life, ask Jesus to forgive me of my sins and then He will send the Holy Spirit to dwell in me, and then each moment of each day i have to give Him the power and authority to direct my days and life, step by step.
Monday; How should we live part one