February 08
Change that Gets Noticed
I began telling people that they should change their hearts and lives and turn to God and do things to show they really had changed.
Acts 26:20a (NCV)
… be ye transformed …
Romans 12:2 (KJV)
Do not change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.
Romans 12:2 (NCV)
In Acts 26, Paul is preaching to the elite, the authorities, the politicians, the suave, the sophisticated, the smooth talkers, and he makes it simple.
“Change,” he says. “I tell people to change their hearts and then change their actions to prove they really have changed.”
This is the evidence of someone who trusts Christ completely: change. And we see it. Something good. Something new. Something better. And others take note too.
We’re not like the world, because the world is not what we want. Instead, we want Him. We want to know Him, to please Him, to be more like Him. And when we do know Him, really know Him, and when we do please Him, and when we are more like Him … people notice!
Lord, fill my heart with knowledge of, and a desire for, more of You. Make me different. Change me for good—Your good. Amen.
Change that Gets Noticed
I began telling people that they should change their hearts and lives and turn to God and do things to show they really had changed.
Acts 26:20a (NCV)
… be ye transformed …
Romans 12:2 (KJV)
Do not change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.
Romans 12:2 (NCV)
In Acts 26, Paul is preaching to the elite, the authorities, the politicians, the suave, the sophisticated, the smooth talkers, and he makes it simple.
“Change,” he says. “I tell people to change their hearts and then change their actions to prove they really have changed.”
This is the evidence of someone who trusts Christ completely: change. And we see it. Something good. Something new. Something better. And others take note too.
We’re not like the world, because the world is not what we want. Instead, we want Him. We want to know Him, to please Him, to be more like Him. And when we do know Him, really know Him, and when we do please Him, and when we are more like Him … people notice!
Lord, fill my heart with knowledge of, and a desire for, more of You. Make me different. Change me for good—Your good. Amen.