"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer 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. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: 'Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.' " Romans 12:1-3 (NIV)
In his letter to the Christians in Rome, the Apostle Paul exhorted them to live as living sacrifices unto The Lord. He encouraged them to change their lives and no longer conform to the sinful patterns of this world, but to transform and renew their minds in order to do God's will. He told them not to think so highly of themselves in their current sinful positions.
The same could be said of us today, we need to change the way that we conduct our lives. We need to live our lives to please God and stop imitating the sinful worldly people that we see in life or on TV. We need to renew and refresh our minds with The Word of God and seek to please The Lord. Most of us think to highly of ourselves. We wrongfully think that the world would be a better place if everybody in it thought and acted just like us. If that were the case, truly a lot of bad things that now happen would no longer happen. However, there are a lot of good things that now happen which would no longer happen because we do not do them. We all need to do a better job of being Christ-like and that begins with transforming our thoughts and actions and renewing our minds with The Word of God.
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