Transformation Process of Our Patterns

UV 3699/10000 Transformation Process of Our Patterns And do not be conformed to this world (any longer with its superficial values and customs), but be transformed and progressively changed ( as you mature spiritually) by the renewing of your mind ( focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes), so that you may prove ( for yourselves) what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect ( in His plan and purpose for you) Romans 12 v 2 It is interesting that scripture does not speak of conversion but it does speak of transformation. We are not to be old wine in a new bottle but like the wine served the second round at the wedding in Canna- new wine in a new bottle. Both our content and container needs transformation. The body ( the container) needs transformation in habits, the inner content in terms of character, principles, thoughts need a change in pattern. A pattern can be formed by a minimum of two elements- light and darkness, what we do and what we don’t do, what we speak and what we do not speak. The uni-verse says that we can be transformed or progressively changed as we mature in Christ by renewing our mind with the word. We are not to conform to the superficial patterns of this world but we are to be transformed to the deep and inner patterns of the word of God. What we saw, heard and received from Christ and Christ-anointed teachers we need to put into practice daily in our lives. The word transforms our minds, our thoughts, our emotions, the way we yield our wills to the Lord, the Holy Spirit to fulfil His purpose in and through us. While the patterns of this world are bad, worse and worst, the pattern of the word is good, acceptable and perfect. What is merely acceptable in our lives, we need to move it to good and what is good in our lives, we need to move it to perfect. The word is the salt that makes the ways of God tasty to us and it is also the salt that causes the leech of sin and evil desires to release its clutches or tentacles on us. The godly values and attitudes we imbibe and the Holy Spirit inculcates in us over time transforms us, degree by degree, little by little, precept by precept. The pattern of our lives should decidedly be better from all angles from the ones we led in conformity to the pattern of this world. Hence, growth to spiritual maturity in Christ is the measure of our transformation of patterns so that we fulfil the plan and purpose of the Lord for our lives over the entire trajectory of our lives. Of course, we need the Lord’s grace not only for salvation but to put into practice or to obey His word in all aspects of our lives. We can be effective witnesses only when we are being transformed- the patterns of our thought, speech, actions point to Jesus as the cause and source of our changed patterns. We receive salvation when we believe Jesus, we are transformed when we receive the Holy Spirit and live in the power He imparts to us to change our patterns of living.