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. —Romans 12: 2.
Don’t let the world mold you. Wow, isn’t that a tough command to obey? It reminds us that what we allow into our minds makes it a place of spiritual warfare. Sloppy thinking is more than sloppiness; it’s dangerous because the world feeds us messages that constantly distort God’s truth and the holy values he calls us to live. Rather than being incensed by the world acting like the world, let’s be transformed by renewing our minds and by doing what Paul said he did—”take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). Let’s not let our minds be molded and conformed to the world, but let them be renewed as we are transformed by the power of God’s Spirit.