The Constancy of Transformation

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And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:2

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The life of a Christian is a life of transformation. This transformation is part of our glorification process. The process by which we come to resemble our Master Jesus here on Earth. The Apostle Paul writes in our opening verse, that unless we undergo this divine transformation through the renewing of the mind, by the Word of God, we will not be able to prove and discern His will! Without this transformation, we will not know the most important part of why we are here on Earth - to do the will of God. Jesus said that He came to Earth to do the will of the One who sent Him (Heb. 10:7,9). Therefore transformation for the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ is constant and consistent - the only assured way to know the council of the will of God.

The word 'transformation' Paul uses in Romans 12:2 is the word we use for the metamorphosis of a butterfly. The change the crawling caterpillar undergoes in the cocoon is a change into a whole new state of being, a flying butterfly. Now we too as believers, in the cocoon of the Word of God, undergo a transformation into newness of being. We become transformed from carnal Christians who grope in the dark, ignorant of the will of God, to those who walk out the mind of Christ on Earth. This transformation enables us to be active partakers of the divine nature of the Christ-man within.

Life on Earth is in a consistent state of change, whether it is a turn of a new year, a new season or a new day on the calendar - we live in a constant state of change. As believers our lives undergo change as well, but we can now determine which change we submit to by choosing what we behold. That which we behold and attend to determines the course of the transformation that we yield to. As we attend to the Word of God we are choosing to renew our minds and to be filled with the knowledge of His will for our lives. On the other hand, we can choose to attend to the world and its flow of information and be transformed into a foe of God. The Word of God states that friendship with the world is enmity with our God (James 4:4).

All transformation starts within the state of one's mind. Only the Word of God can transform the mind and make it submit to the will of God. For it is God in us, who makes us to will and to do according to His good pleasure (Phil. 2:13). The Holy Spirit within us works through the power of the Word of God to enable compliance to the will of God. Alternatively, if we are left to our unrenewed human mind we will be in a constant state of opposition to the Spirit of God and the will of God. Thanks be to God that we are not left alone but we have been fathered by God to a new and living hope. Therefore now, by the power of the Holy Spirit in us, we can undergo a glorious transformation!

This glorious transformation is the only way we can become fully submitted to the will of God as Jesus was to the Father's will when He walked Earth. Submitting our minds to the transformation of the Word of God is how we come to reflect the glory of God. His glory on Earth is unveiled through us as "... we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Cor. 3:18). The submission to God's will is where the manifestations and demonstrations of His Spirit flow - the signs and the wonders that follow the Word of transformation. Stay fully yielded to the constancy of His transformation within so you can walk out His divine life expression on Earth.