<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="1co+2:6-16">1 Corinthians 2:6-16</span></span></p><p>We have been seeing that by going "into the sanctuary" - the place where God had made provision to meet with His people - the psalmist has put himself in a position where his perspectives can be changed. This section of the psalm is probably the most vital part, for it is here that his thinking begins to change from natural thinking to spiritual thinking. He had been thinking like a natural man, considering life from just one perspective, but in the sanctuary he begins to see life from God's point of view. What is the difference between natural thinking and spiritual thinking? Natural thinking is on the level of the earth - the level of man; spiritual thinking is on a higher level altogether - the level of God. It is surprising that so many Christians think naturally about their problems rather than spiritually. The psalmist was a good and godly man but under the pressure of circumstances he had reverted to thinking naturally about his problem. We will never learn to live effectively until we understand that the whole of life is spiritual, not just parts of it. In the chapter before us today the apostle asks, in effect, why it was that none of the rulers of this world recognised the Lord Jesus Christ when He was here. It was because they looked at Him from a natural perspective - they saw only a carpenter. Without the Holy Spirit operating upon their minds, they just could not understand. Ultimately, the problems and difficulties of life are all spiritual; so the sooner we learn to think spiritually, the better we will be. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Gracious and loving heavenly Father, I realise that if I am to become a spiritual thinker I must allow You to think in me. I have given You my heart, help me now to give You my mind. Think in me, dear Lord. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+55:1-13">Isaiah 55:1-13</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ro+12:2">Romans 12:2</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="jer+29:11">Jeremiah 29:11</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What did God declare to Israel?</li><li>How can we be transformed?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God " (v. 14) 

<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="ro+12:1-8">Romans 12:1-8</span></span></p><p>The second thing the psalmist learned about himself as he paused in self-examination was this: "I saw myself so stupid and so ignorant"  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+73:22">Psalm 73:22</span>, TLB). There were things he knew which he had foolishly chosen to forget. He forgot that God was in control. He forgot the temporary nature of success and prosperity. He forgot the whole purpose of godly living. He forgot that God always has the last word. If you and I react as the psalmist did to trials, then there is only one thing that can be said about us - we are stupid and ignorant. The third thing the psalmist learned about himself was that he had reacted like an animal - instinctively: "I was a brute beast before you"  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+73:22">Psalm 73:22</span>b). What is the difference between a beast and a human being? A beast lacks the faculty of reason. It is unable to stand outside itself to consider itself and its actions. An animal responds to any stimulus instinctively without any interval for thought. The psalmist had been doing that - he had failed to put an interval of thought between the stimulus and the response. Once he did stop to think, and put the situation in a different context, his negative feelings immediately dissolved. Is not this the value of the Scriptures? As we read them they reason with us. They tell us not to react instinctively to things, but to think them through. They give us a new framework for our understanding, a new context in which to reason. The more we draw our understanding from the Scriptures and learn to think God's thoughts after Him, the more secure and the more effective our lives become. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Father, I am grateful that You have made me with the ability to think. My thoughts can lead me astray or they can lead me to You. Help me to draw my thought patterns not from the world but from Your Word. In Jesus' Name I ask it. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+105:5">Psalm 105:5</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="de+6:12">Deuteronomy 6:12</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+50:22">Psalm 50:22</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What is a basic human tendency?</li><li>What does the psalmist exhort us to do?</li></ul></div></div>

" be transformed by the renewing of your mind " (v. 2) 

<p> If a Christian can by possibility be saved while he conforms to this world, at any rate it must be so as by fire. Such a bare salvation is almost as much to be dreaded as desired. Reader, would you wish to leave this world in the darkness of a desponding death bed, and enter heaven as a shipwrecked mariner climbs the rocks of his native country? then be worldly; be mixed up with Mammonites, and refuse to go without the camp bearing Christ's reproach. But would you have a heaven below as well as a heaven above? Would you comprehend with all saints what are the heights and depths, and know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge? Would you receive an abundant entrance into the joy of your Lord? Then come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing. Would you attain the full assurance of faith? you cannot gain it while you commune with sinners. Would you flame with vehement love? Your love will be damped by the drenchings of godless society. You cannot become a great Christian-you may be a babe in grace, but you never can be a perfect man in Christ Jesus while you yield yourself to the worldly maxims and modes of business of men of the world. It is ill for an heir of heaven to be a great friend with the heirs of hell. It has a bad look when a courtier is too intimate with his king's enemies. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous. Little thorns make great blisters, little moths destroy fine garments, and little frivolities and little rogueries will rob religion of a thousand joys. O professor, too little separated from sinners, you know not what you lose by your conformity to the world. It cuts the tendons of your strength, and makes you creep where you ought to run. Then, for your own comfort's sake, and for the sake of your growth in grace, if you be a Christian, be a Christian, and be a marked and distinct one. </p>

This timeless classic from Charles Spurgeon will help to both start and end your day with wonderful insight into God's Word.

Charles Spurgeon's Morning & Evening

"And be not conformed to this world." - Romans 12:2

Evening Devotional

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven 

<p>As you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. § I beseech you … , brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.<br><br>If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. § In Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them. § This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind. You have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: … put on the new man which was created according to God, in righteousness and true holiness.</p>

 Walk in newness of life. 

<p>Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.<br><br>By grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. § Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.<br><br>Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. § Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. § [Be] filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.<br><br>Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.</p>

 The God of peace … make you complete in every good work to do His will. 

<p>You shall not follow a crowd to do evil.<br><br>Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.<br><br>What fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? § Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him … The world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.<br><br>You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. § You have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him … as the truth is in Jesus.</p>

 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 

 Bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 

<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under bondage of effort to please God by works of the law" </strong>(<a id="verse_1632880196327586" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/18">Gal. 5:18</a>).</p>
</blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The motivating principle of the old life is the law; the motivating principle of the new life is "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus." The one produces "the works of the flesh"; the other, "the fruit of the Spirit."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"To be guided by the Holy Spirit is to be moved through the most delicate relationships the heart can know. The bit and bridle' of the law must give way to the glance of the eye of grace (<a id="verse_1632880196771282" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Psalm/32/8">Ps. 32:8</a>; <a id="verse_1632880196910480980" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Psalm/32/9">9</a>). At this point Satan, appearing as an angel of light,' will seek to misdirect the believer's life by making use of a morbid conscience, a mistaken impression as to duty, or a lack of understanding as to the exact teaching of God's Word. However, Satan's leadings are to be detected since they are irksome, painful, and disagreeable. The leading of the Holy Spirit is sweet and satisfying to the heart of the one who is yielded to God. We must remember that the will of God is said to be good,'acceptable,' and perfect' (<a id="verse_1632880196913226" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/12/2">Rom. 12:2</a>)." -L.S.C.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The believer has an all-engaging responsibility of continuing in an attitude of reliance by means of the Spirit be walking') upon the Holy Spirit. This is the believer's divinely appointed task and place of cooperation in the mighty undertakings of God. Thus, and only thus, can the Holy Spirit possess and vitalize every human faculty, emotion, and choice." -L.S.C.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"If we are living in the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power"</strong> (<a id="verse_1632880196762626" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/25">Gal. 5:25</a>, Wey.).</p>

A 365 day devotional that will help you in your Christian growth and walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.  This devotional is a collection of quotes from some of the best authors in the realm of Christian growth that has been organized by Miles J Stanford.  This devotional study is divided into 12 sections each containing 31 daily portions.

None but the Hungry Heart

 Guiding Comforter 

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num ">2 </sup>Do not conform   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. </span></p>

Do not conform<cr>1</cr>  to the pattern of this world,<cr>2</cr>  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.<cr>3</cr>  Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is<cr>4</cr> —his good, pleasing<cr>5</cr>  and perfect will.

Romans 12:2

 2 Do not conform   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.

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 Do not conform 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.

<p><span class="bible-text ">Do not conform   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. </span></p>

 Do not conform   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.

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