Transformed

Transformed

Romans 12:2 (KJV) ² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The word transformed is the Greek word, μεταμορφοῦσθε = metamorphousthe, and is the same word in English as metamorphosis. As you will recall from your childhood, a metamorphosis is what the process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly was called. It is defined as a complete change, a transformation, or transfigured.

Here in Romans God instructs us to how our lives can be transformed and changed.

1. Be not conformed to this world:

The word world as used here in Romans is in reference to the moral world or those whose beliefs, values, morals, and lifestyles are in contrast with God and His Word.

James 4:4 (KJV) ⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 2:15-16 (KJV) ¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
The word conformed means to fashion alike, to copy the behavior and customs. Putting the two together we understand that be ye not conformed to this world means that our thinking and our lifestyle is not fashioned or patterned after the world.

2. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind

So how are our lives transformed? Our lives are transformed when we change our thinking, the meditation of our heart.

Proverbs 4:23 (KJV) ²³ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) ⁷ For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:….

For there to be a complete transformation in one’s life, there must be a turning away from the thinking and hence the lifestyle of this world and a complete submergence in the God and His Word.
Read, study, memorize, and meditate on God and His Word. Pray, seek Him.

3. Prove…the will of God.

The word prove means to be able to discern. God’s will is the actions or course of life God would have us follow. Notice it comes last in this verse. If we are to do what God wants us to do, we must first stop copying the behavior and thinking of those without Christ and start seeking Jesus Christ and His Word with our whole heart.

He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
R. C. Sproul
The income of God’s Word is the outcome of a changed life.
Ed Cole

Write it down, take it with you, meditate on it throughout the day.

This is from my blog entitled Daily Meditations.  You can view it each day at: http://www.reformersunanimous.wordpress.com