Watch Out for the World's Mold

“With eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers, as an act of intelligent worship, to give him your bodies, as a living sacrifice, consecrated to him and acceptable by him. Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold, but let God re-mold your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.” (Romans 12:1-2, J.B. Phillips New Testament in Modern English)

New life in Jesus means a different life in Jesus. It means saying “No” to a whole system of thinking that is all around us, trying to press us into its mold. It means saying “Yes” to a radically new way of thinking that presents itself as the Age to Come breaks into this present age in the form of the Kingdom of God. Sadly, too many say “Yes” to Jesus and then proceed to just baptize their culture and keep living by its dictates instead of letting Jesus remold their thinking and lead them on a new road altogether.

If that is all you have time for today, let me suggest you just meditate on that idea, but when you have time for a much longer read, I hope you will check out this piece on “Jesus, Politics and Social Media” which is found on our new “Articles” tab on the Mind Change site.