BE TRANSFORMED

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Text : Romans 12:2

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.(NLT)

Real and lasting transformation begins from the inside(the inner man). If you want to experience a change in your life, you must allow God change the way you think.  Your thought is what describes your personality. "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he:......" Proverbs 23:7.

The word "transform' is coined from a Greek word-metamorphoo. This means to change into another form or to transfigure.  This word metamorphoo(transformed, transfigured) is both used in Mathew 17:2 and Romans 12:2). In the case of Jesus Christ on mount of transfiguaration  We saw that Jesus' appearance and face changed simply because He was transformed from within. If you are truly experiencing constant renewal from the inside, your world will soon find out. Transformation cannot be hidden.

When Jesus was transformed on the mount (Mathew 17), His three disciples(Peter, John and James) saw His glory. They saw the outside appearance, even in His cloth reflected what Jesus truly looks like in the inside.

You need to be perturbed about the fact that despite your years in the Lord, not much change can be seen on the outside. Some are  10, 20 or 30 years in the Lord (as Born again), yet much change cannot be seen in their lives. The change here is not about what is added to you like assets, financial or academic or marital statu. No! Not at all!

The transformation we are talking about is that of change from carnality to spirituality, from Adamic nature to Christlikeness. 

Sometimes, I personally become sorrowful when I look at my age in the Lord and how much progress I have made in the Lord. It sometimes gives me concern when I consider how much of Christ I have BECOME. Devil often deceives us to think more about our Natural and physical status and not our spiritual state. Our spiritual state/status should rather give us more concern. We should be more concerned about our real person(the inner man) than what is outside. We should pay more attention to the inner life than anything else.

Sometimes we pay so much attention to the externalities and neglect the inner being to suffer great loss. 

Today, we can see how people can be transformed within few minutes when they come under the magic of a make-up artist and photographer. That's the external change. That's a facade. That one does not last long. God's desire is that we may subject ourselves to Him, so He can make us up from inside, so that the world can see our BEAUTY like that of Jesus on the mount.

 *BE YE TRANSFORMED* 

Bible reading: Mathew 17:1-6.

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