The Bible is the manual of transformation. But as with any other manual, it only works if you read it and apply what you are reading. Follow the instructions and apply the principles. People may collect books on how to stop smoking, on how to lose weight, how to be organized and how to better use their time, but until
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“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. ” (1 Corinthians 13:12, NAS)
I thought of picking up again the thread from the last blog. I kept thinking that we always think we know everything, you see that with children when you try to introduce some new food, a vegetable for instance, and at first they may say they don’t like that, but then sometimes with time they learn to like the new. I remember saying that “I don’t like this” and my mother would say “how do you know you don’t like this if you have never tried before?”
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“…but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. ” (1 Corinthians 13:10, NAS)
Last week as I was talking to my daughter the Lord started talking to me about how life is one big and long transition. When you think you have things figured out, there comes the next change in our lives!
Isn’t it true, a baby is born and is already crying because of the change of environment, the body functions also are not always comfortable, the baby has to learn how to feed and digest the milk, and then when the baby finally reaches a place of balance it is time to be weaned! And then come school, a brother or a sister, different foods and the changes that come with time and growth never stop.
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And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2, NAS)
This is a verse that I have read and heard so many times in my life, but it is interesting to take a closer look in the word transformed and find the meaning in the Greek. It is also interesting to read this verse in other translations, like for instance the New Living Translation:
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