11/26/21
Have you ever noticed repetitive cycles or circles in your life? Where the same patterns of things or events seem to keep happening in your life? You know, you seem to keep colliding with the same types of people. Maybe its the same financial cycle that keeps sucking you back in. Maybe you just can’t seem to make the decisions that bring you to the life of success and abundance you know is intended for you.
Romans 12:2
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 what God’s will is, his good pleasing and perfect will
Lets go in a little bit further:
The word pattern doesn’t show in every translation of the Bible but the Greek word for Conform means to be conformed to a pattern. One of the definitions of pattern is: to give something a form based on that of something else. If you think of forming an object, you will need to have a base that you form that object on. That is the the thing that holds that object up and helps give and support its form. If that base is faulty, then it crumbles. Like a house built on sand. That is what happens when we form our thoughts based on what the “world” or popular opinion or even other people is thinking. If we form our thoughts on anything other than that which we have received from God, then they are bound to crumble. This is why we see the world in such a fragile state and everyone seems to be grasping for something to stand on. Somewhere something they had formed their thoughts on, crumbled.
As Christians we have the ability to renew and transform our minds so that they are build on a sure foundation. We have a sound mind. We have the mind of Christ when we choose to yield to these spiritual technologies that we have inherited and gained full access to as believers.
Wait, but how?
Step one: Surrender – You make a decision from the heart level that you are ready for real change and not by your own strength, might, or understanding. But in way that you are ready to put it in God hands and let him do what His good and pleasing and perfect will is.
Step two: Acceptance/Identity – Accepting who you are as a child of God. Accepting that you are LOVED and that God is for you, not against you. That he wants to lavish his love on you and give you good things, good gifts, that he is concerned of every detail your you life, that he has a hope and a plan for you. That you were predestined before the world began. You aren’t an afterthought He will let slip through the crack and pick up a few nice things. He has storehouses waiting for you and books of things written about you. You can find all this and so much more in scripture, look it up and let your mind be renewed ans you find out who God says you really are. Find out what His good and pleasing perfect will for you is. It wont look like anyone else’s.
Step three: Processing – Allowing God to develop and process you is the time it takes to begin to trust, believe, and build your faith on these promises and the reality of your new way of thinking and doing life. This is a process and it takes time. You didn’t learn bad behaviors and bad thought patterns over night. You won’t unlearn them overnight either. The key to making this go faster, and to prevent 40 years of cycles in the dessert/wilderness repeatability is to daily, and moment by moment go back to step one, surrender.