Be Re-molded by Christ

Are you being molded by the world?

I listen to a prayer app called Lectio 365. Founder Pete Grieg addressed setting new patterns, and I saw how that relates to stewarding money. He said: “I’m reflecting on the call to live counter-culturally, by an entirely different value system, because I’m a follower of Jesus…

The J.B. Phillips translation of Romans 12:1-2 says, “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.”

Inevitably, the media I constantly consume starts to consume me. It realigns my neural pathways, amplifies my prejudices, and embeds unhealthy dependencies. The culture in which I swim inevitably shapes my most fundamental perception of reality … As a follower of Christ, I’m called to be a catalyst in culture, affecting change, but all too easily I’m more like a chameleon merely mirroring the colors of my environment and blending in. But I am called to be different, to be holy, to be prophetically distinct. Lord, please show me one way in which I have become too comfortable in the culture, and one way in which I can deliberately and defiantly be different today.” Amen! Thank you, Pete!

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