Be Transformed
Ever wondered how electricity gets to your house? Obviously by wires, but how does something that is generated by a steam driven or hydro driven turbine at around 110,000 volts make your TV work when you plug it into the power point on the wall? If it was still at that voltage then it would blow everything to smithereens.
It does it by a series of transformers that reduce the voltage to 240 volts, to a safer usable level. The transformer first sits in huge power yards outside the power stations then at distribution centres where it is reduced further and finally on the pole in your street.
What was once unruly, dangerous useless is now controlled, sensible and usable. That scenario reminds me of what the Apostle Paul was saying in Romans 12:1-2 when he said “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind” The word used for transformed is the same used for metamorphosis, when an ugly caterpillar is transformed into a beautiful butterfly. Thats how God wants us to be transformed when we know Him as our Lord and Saviour. Just as the unusable power is changed, and just as the ugly caterpillar is transformed into a thing of beauty, thats how our lives are to be changed.
In Acts 26:20 it says “I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds” That’s what real heart repentance does, it transforms us into a new being “its no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me” I am a new creation, the old has gone and the new has come”
Transformation is not something that comes from some physical presence, when a voltage is transformed from 110,000 volts to 240, not one wire touches another, its the same with us, God doesn’t make us transform, it is His Spirit within us that transforms a willing heart. Thats why it says ‘be transformed by the renewing of your mind” Its an act of repentance and an act of your will. You have to do it!
Are you living a transformed life today? If you are its a sign of true repentance in your life.
Blessings
Blair
PS Its good to be back.
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