Righteously Redeemed

August 28, 2020 Getting a glow stick when I was younger was a rare treat.  There wasn't a dollar tree around the corner.    Amazon and the internet didn't yet exist either.  The only place that I can remember they were readily available was at concert type events or at the local skating rink.   I loved them!  To open the package and know you are about to see it miraculously glow a neon green, pink or blue, was such fun anticipation.   I think everyone knows how to use them, but just in case. You open up the package, break it in 1-2 places and then you shake it up!  It's at this moment, and ONLY then will it light up. Brightly, the light shines and can be seen from across the room.   Y'all, We are glow sticks!  I know that sounds crazy, but it's true.   We, like a glow stick, have great potential to shine our light to the world by reflecting the light of Jesus.  What we don't always or even want to realize is that in order to do...

Romans 12:2 Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.  Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.   I often think of a butterfly when I think of transforming, or even those transformer toys from my childhood.  Honestly, I prefer the butterfly because once it has changed from a caterpillar to a butterfly it is forever changed.  A transformer toy goes back and forth from one form to another, so in that sense its really only conforming and not truly transforming. For starts, when we conform we try to change our behavior depending on who we are around and the specific circumstances we may need to assume, therefore copying others. We don't actually change, we just temporarily shift or conform based on how we need to in order to fit in to those around us. Transforming means to go through a process of metamorphosis.  To leave be...