Transformed

 

Transformed

 

Romans 12:1-2 says, “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

 

God does not focus on giving us heartwarming devotional thoughts. God intends to save us & radically transform our lives. This is the work of God.

 

Moses was a shepherd until he encountered God at a burning bush in the desert, until God transformed him into a deliverer & leader of a nation of over one million people. David was the youngest son in a family who didn’t expect David to amount to much until God transformed him into the greatest king of Israel. Elisha was a farmer until God transformed him into a great prophet. Mary was preparing to be an ordinary small-town Jewish wife & mother until God transformed her into the mother of the Messiah. Peter & Andrew were simple fisherman until God transformed them into apostles. Saul was a persecutor of the church until God transformed him into Paul, a planter of churches.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about God transforming people into who He created them to be.

 

What has to occur in our lives so that God can transform us?

 

In Isaiah 66:1-2 God says, “Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool; what is the house that you would build for Me, and what is the place of My rest? All these things My hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look; he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at My word.”

 

We have to humble ourselves under God’s authority. If we don’t humble ourselves before God then we will try to make ourselves who we want to be & miss being transformed into who God wants us to be.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about being humble before God.

 

We have to admit that we are broken & wounded without God. If we see ourselves as not broken then we will not let God fix us & if we see ourselves as not being wounded then we will not let God heal us.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about allowing God to fix & heal our brokenness & woundedness.

 

We have to have a holy awe & respect for the authority of God’s word. God’s word reveals to us who God is & who we are in relationship to God. If we don’t completely trust the truth of God’s word, we will not be transformed by God to be conformed to His will.  

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about trusting & obeying the truth & authority of God’s word.

 

Psalm 139:13 says, “For You formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” We must acknowledge God as our Creator. If we do not acknowledge God as our Creator then He has no right to transform us, but if God is acknowledged as our Creator then He has the right to transform our lives in any way He wants (which is always for His glory & our good).

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about acknowledging God as our Creator.

 

God is fully aware of His eternal purposes for our lives & the enormous heavenly resources He is prepared to pour out on us to ensure His will comes to pass in our lives. We must submit our lives to God as living sacrifices so He can transform us into who He created us to be.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls,

Joe