Transformed Devotional - How to Change?

Opening Prayer:
Pray that God would transform your mind today. Ask him to change your character to be like God's character.

Read:
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 and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Thought:
What does it mean to CONFORM - to blend in, to fit into a mold, to look like something else. What does it mean to TRANSFORM - to change from one physical state into another, to change from the inside, which changes your outside.

When this verse speaks of renewing your mind by being transformed, it is literally saying that we are to change from how we were INTO something new and different.  If we conform, we do not change - we simply look the same.

So, if we desire to see true change in our lives as we seek God, then there must be a point of TRANSFORMATION - where you change from the inside out and it makes you look, act, think and live different than you did before knowing God.  God is the one that does the transforming - not you.  We can try to live a good life, act right in situations and strive to look good on the outside, but eventually, we will conform to the world around us. 

Want to change?  Then seek God and ask Him to change you from the inside out!  Ask God to TRANSFORM your life and make you new!  If you do this, the promise from God is that you will be able to discover God's will for your life!  How exciting is that! 

Response:
What did you hear as you read this short devotional?
What do you think about what you read?
What will you do in response to reading this devotional? Talk with God - share with him what you learned from this devotional.