God speaks today Thursday | May 11, 2023
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
(Psalm 51:10) Let's aim for a transformed life
The apostle Paul invites Christians to transform themselves through the renewal of their understanding, as an alternative to conforming to the values of the world. This process of transformation is a gradual and ongoing one, where the person becomes more like Jesus Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit. The word for transformation in the original Greek means a change in form and nature, similar to the process of a worm transforming into a butterfly. Christians are called to aim for a transformed life, where they are unrecognizable from their former self and exemplify the attributes of a being transformed by the Power of God.
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And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
(Ezekiel 11:19)Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(2 Corinthians 5:17)And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
(Romans 12:2)Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
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