I came face to face with a very solemn understanding this morning and it came from a passage I have read a hundred times in my life! Romans 12:1-2 says “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 by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Throughout my life I have been at different points of conviction with this verse. Sometimes I had been living exactly like the world or didn’t care about Gods mercy or His will and it has played a huge role in the transformation of my mind and life! Today I read it from a different perspective. Lately in my life I have been struggling with “THE PLAN” I’m definitely a person who likes to have one and to know the plan! But.. With God, we only get to see a part of the plan He has for us. We have to trust that He knows it, it’s good, and we have to be content with that. We can’t see the plan but He says we can know His will that’s perfect!! But here’s the catch, we have to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. The Lord revealed to me yesterday how important the mind really is in relationship with Him. The Bible says we are to love the Lord with all our mind!! I always wondered how this played on in reality and He revealed it to me yesterday… When anything other than the Lord consumes our minds, we are loving it, not Him with all our minds. It hinders our relationship when anything makes its way above the Lord in mind, heart, or soul!! Therefore, we can’t know and test what His will is unless our minds are transformed in Him!! He demands all of our thoughts just like He demands our heart and soul and strength! If you feel, like I have that you are having trouble discerning His exact will for your life, there may be something that needs to be removed from your heart, soul or mind! There is a song that says Anything I put before my God is an idol. Anything I want with all my heart is an idol. Anything I can’t stop thinking of is an idol. Anything that I give all my all my love is an idol. The weight of those words is enough to bring me to my knees!! I pray the Lord brings you closer into His intimate presence as He renews you mind in Him!
