A radical change
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: To be renewed in understanding means to continually restructure the way we see the world and its values, including adopting a different interpretation of past experiences in light of our new life in Christ. This renewal allows us to see past traumas as instruments for personal growth and character development, instead of seeing ourselves as victims. We must also renew our understanding of the things in the world, recognizing that worldly successes and material possessions are ultimately garbage compared to the eternal things of God. The apostle Paul exemplified this change of mind, seeing everything he previously valued as garbage compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ. Through the lens of the Word, we can understand the world in a different way and appreciate eternal things above all else.
Devotionals based on Romans 12
In this series, Dr. Miranda delves deeply into Paul's exhortation in Romans 12:1-2 to "renew our minds" and "not be conformed to the world."
1 Such a beautiful and complete plan of salvation
2 The danger of taking lightly the call to holiness
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?
4 We have to present ourselves each day before the Lord
5 Sin will have no dominion over us
6 We have to identify the areas of our life that are not addressed by God
7 Freed from sin to serve justice
8 Our old nature is crucified together with Christ
9 Our true life of worshiping the Lord is our conduct
11 Do not love the world or the things that are in the world
12 Let's aim for a transformed life
13 The gradual process of our transformation
14 In perpetual search for a higher level of holiness
15 A radical change
In Romans chapter 12 in verse 2 the Apostle Paul has made a tremendously complex and all-encompassing call to us to a life of transformation, of rejection of the world and of a continual renewal of the mind. And I want in this last meditation connected with verse 2 to do a deeper exploration of that renewal of understanding, what does it really mean in our life to be renewed and renew ourselves in understanding?
It means that we have to have a commitment, a perpetual restructuring of the way we see the world, its values and I would say that even more than that it is supposed that as children of God when we enter the Gospel we can look back , the experiences of the past and adopt a different interpretation of the things that have happened in our lives.
It means that we have to have a commitment, a perpetual restructuring of the way we see the world, its values and I would say that even more than that it is supposed that as children of God when we enter the Gospel we can look back , the experiences of the past and adopt a different interpretation of the things that have happened in our lives.
