✝ Daily Encouragement (2/27/24) "Conformed Or Transformed?"
Published: Tue, 02/27/24
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Yesterday's sunset on our house showcasing our new white picket
fence.
"Conformed Or
Transformed?"
Note:
Today's message is an expansion on our message yesterday, "A Delete Key For The
Mind".
Message summary:
We must daily come before the throne of God, confess our sins, acknowledge our
weaknesses, and ask His help to keep us from conforming to this world. Are you being conformed or are you being transformed?
Listen to our message on your audio player.
"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to
offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer 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" (Romans
12:1,2).
Our daily text is one of the very first Scriptures I put to memory in my early days of walking with Christ over 50 years ago, way, way back in the early seventies. When I was
at Truman High School in Independence, MO we had a ministry group of Campus Crusade for Christ. An older mentor named Dave sat down with me at King's restaurant on Noland Road. He taught from this verse using a paper napkin with the outline of a head. Dave described how in our sinful nature we had been conformed to the pattern of this world with an image written on a napkin showing a variety of sinful clutter that fills our
minds.
 Bible teacher J.C. Philpot who lived in the 1800's writes,
"In proportion as we are conformed to the spirit of this world, our understanding becomes dull in the things of God, our affections cold and torpid, and our consciences
less tender and sensitive".
My friend Dave stressed how we need to be transformed by the renewing of our minds
and the various means by which our mind is renewed by replacing the sins conforming to
this world with Godly input.
Bible teacher Paul Fritz
observes,
"There is always a danger of giving in to the temptations of the world to just feel like being “normal” in our modern society. Today it is easier to try to fit
in, blend in and give in to the popular trends in the world rather than to live by Biblical principles. We are faced with a choice today. We can either decide to give in to the patterns of self-indulgence, carnality and selfishness or we choose to prosper by obeying God’s
Word."
We have a responsibility in not conforming any longer to the pattern of this world and in renewing our minds. This transformation is not for a season, but a lifelong commission. We are being transformed and it seems that this phase will not be complete until the next stage of our existence, when we go to heaven. The struggle is ever before us as the tempter never fully leaves us alone no matter how much transformation takes place or how long we've walked with God. Bad habits visible to others may be broken but dealing with inner attitudes can even be more difficult, those attitudes we don't want others to see. Yet the transforming of the Spirit must take place within and without, for "everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account" (Hebrews 4:13). We must daily come before the throne of God, confess our sins, acknowledge our weaknesses, and ask His help to keep us from conforming to this world. We can align our desires with His by drawing near to Him daily as James 4:8 tells us, "If we draw near to Him He will draw near to us."
Are you being conformed or are you being
transformed?
Be encouraged
today,
Hebrews
3:13
Stephen & Brooksyne
Weber
Daily
prayer:
Father, I am so grateful for my salvation, that in Christ I am a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from You, who reconciled me to Yourself through Christ Jesus. As Christ's ambassador I want to live as one who no longer conforms to the pattern of this world, but is transformed by the renewing of my heart and my mind. Now I can prayerfully test that which I
see, feel or hear to find that which is Your will for me – Your good, pleasing and perfect will.(See 2 Cor. 5:17, 20; Romans 12:2)
Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental
Resources
"Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me"
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CityAlight
In the course of our home addition project we needed to remove some fencing including the posts to give access. In replacing the old wood fencing we found that much of it had
been decaying (it was over 25 years old) and also need replaced. We chose a vinyl picket fence and were blessed to find the fence panels on clearance price at Lowes for less than 1/4 the regular price. Luis, a friend we met years ago at a company he no longer works for, is installing the fence as our handyman and he is indeed handy in a wide of variety of work skills. Today he expects to finish the back side of our fence which will serve us greatly as it keeps our four dogs contained. And that
sure is handy when they need to go "potty".
"My addiction finally caught up with me, on March 13, 2021 - My wife found me Unresponsive on the floor. She did CPR. I ended up in the hospital. Blood Alcohol level .32
mixed with other prescription pills. When you hit rock bottom, the only choice is to climb to the light of freedom or stay in the dark abyss of
addiction".
He was converted to Christ at that time and notes the date with a post-it note indicating the number of days, recently passing 1000 days of no alcohol! He now has a ministry
online:
Steve, an Iowan reader and engineer who had worked with John Deere, responded to our message
last Thursday about George Washington Carver with an interesting detail I had never heard of
before:
It reminded me of a story shared by Harold Brock, a former apprentice to Henry Ford who would rise to executive leadership in Ford, and later to
John Deere where I worked. Carver and Ford had become friends in the early 30s and shared a common interest in using agricultural products for industrial
purposes.
Carver first visited Ford’s laboratory complex in 1937 and eventually moved into a building dedicated to Carver’s research. It was
during this time that Mr. Brock observed an enthusiastic Mr. Carver coaxing Ford and his accomplices to eat homemade grass sandwiches, presumably harvested from the manicured factory lawn! Hopefully the landscaping crew hadn’t applied any weed killer to the turf. David elaborates on his relationship with Harold Brock in this story,
"
The
Apprentice"
Finally
today:
This morning we had farm work across the
road.
Any idea what this
is?
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