Until we just don't know any more what are we supposed to be doing thinking feeling being
ROMANS 12:2a and do not be conformed to this world.......
How many of us are watching news on the tv, reading the newspaper, listening to radio? How many are active on Facebook, Twitter and receiving emails constantly from one source or another? How many have family, friends and neighbors, co-workers who all have opinions and are only too happy to share those opinions with us?
Over time all of this exposure to all of these thoughts and feelings and opinions mix with our own and we get worn down. The clear line we may once have drawn for ourselves between what we chose to believe and what we now think can become blurred.
The clear line between right and wrong, righteousness and sin becomes blurred and faint and slowly fades away until we become uncertain, unclear about right, wrong, acceptable and unacceptable. We begin to think there may be a gray area, we don't want to offend others who also believe what they believe just as strongly and sincerely as we believe what we believe and after all how can we really know? How can we truly say this is right or that is wrong when surely what is right for one in ones circumstances may not be right for another in another circumstance.
How can we be sure?
ROMANS 12:2b but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.....
To be transformed is to be you, but different. Think about the movie or the toys, the Transformers. First it's a robot and then it transforms into a car and vice versa. It's still what it is but it is transformed, changes shape and purpose and becomes something entirely different, yet still the same parts and pieces.
Our instruction is clear.
We must NOT be conformed: compliant, accommodating, integrated, yielded to this world, but instead we are to be TRANSFORMED: altered, reconstructed, revolutionized, translated, remodeled and MOLDED.....
HOW?
by renewing our minds.
Among all the tv, radio, newspapers and internet, how much time and how often do you pick up your bible?
Until you are introduced to TRUTH you will never recognize TRUTH. Truth is the only thing that will set you free from political correctness and confusion over right and wrong and indecision and uncertainty!
The truth is Jesus. Jesus tells us that there is no middle ground, no gray area. Let your yes be yes!
Matthew 5:37 is clear.
Let your Yes be Yes and your No, No. For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
The world would tell us there are mitigating circumstances and "gray" areas where one thing or another are difficult to choose from, where what might be wrong in one situation may be right in this situation. When a clear violation of what is right and wrong isn't clear. The world contradicts the TRUTH and pressures us to accept the contradiction and conform to a manner of thinking that leads to behavior that is clearly in violation of what God has revealed is righteous behavior.
Such as when abortion would be acceptable. The world would confuse us with goobledygook double speak about emotions and thoughts and feelings and womans rights and womans health issues and a womans right to choose; BUT GOD tells us that every person is made, formed and created by Him and He personally formed each of us and covered us in the womb of the mother! (Psalm 139: 13-16)
While the world clamors to fill our heads and hearts and half truths and confuse us with too many choices so we might never know the clear path of truth, God gives us simple, easy to follow instructions.
We must be BORN AGAIN. Repent of our sin and be forgiven. Accept that Jesus died in our place and rose from the dead to redeem us from evil.
We all fall short of Gods glorious perfection. We all sin, even AFTER being born again! Even after the Holy Spirit lives in our hearts we fall, we mess up, we choose wrong, we SIN! And God still makes a clear way for.
I John 1: 8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
As long as we let the world dictate all our thought and actions the line between right and wrong will continue to fade and the false gray area will continue to look like a safe place to dwell. The opinions of many will sway us and the rule of majority will even convince us that we are right.
But the day will come when we will stand, ALONE, before the God Who Created the universe. No mother, no father, no sister, no brother, no husband, no wife, no son and no daughter. No neighbor, no friend, no pastor, no preacher, just we alone with our God to answer to Him and be judged by Him according to His perfection and holiness and righteousness.
Jesus will be the only one standing with each of us. What you have done with TRUTH, for Jesus Himself is the TRUTH, will determine whether that TRUTH will recognize YOU at that time that determines your entire eternity. And it won't be about what all that other noise influenced you to think and say and do.
It will all be about whether or not you recognized TRUTH. If you did, then TRUTH will now recognize YOU and be your advocate and speak on your behalf to the great God Almighty. Or will TRUTH do with you what you did with TRUTH? Be silent, reject it, fail to recognize it?
DON'T BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD.......
BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND
that you may PROVE what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
There surely is a LOT of noise working hard to get our attention. And it would be easy to get confused and wonder how we could possibly know where TRUTH lies. Trust the still small voice in your heart. For God has called us to know the TRUTH and God desires that all men should repent and come to a saving knowledge of the TRUTH.
It is always right to LOVE; and God has proven His love by sending His son to shine TRUTH on all who will receive it with gladness!
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