Seed for Dec 4

"Be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind..."

When we were children we had Play-do. We could mold and shape that clay into any shape we wanted. We even had molds that you put the clay in and press real hard on the handle and bingo, your clay looked like what ever it was forced into. That is being conformed. Being conformed is being pressed into shape by an outside force. i.e. Forced into shape by your Preacher, religion, parents, peers, world, friends, family, and or temptation. But the Bible says do not be conformed to this world. Do not be shaped by the pressures of the world, as to be shaped by an outside force like the world is.

The other side of the coin is being transformed. A caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly. It is not outward pressure that changes the worm into something beautiful, but a transforming power within that causes it to change. One day a worm, the next a beautiful flying butterfly. How? Transforming power at work.

Have we taken on the shape of our “religion” by being pressed into that shape? Are we just conforming to the traditions of our “denomination”? Or has something really happened within that changed this worm into something beautiful? I was a son of Adam, by natural birth. Just a worm! But when God’s seed was planted into me, I became a Son of God by transforming power. I have been truly changed into His image. I am not conforming to mere rules of my religion. I truly am a New Creation! Be blessed.

Billy and Jan Wells