Romans 12:1-2 – "Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
I always thought that not conforming to the ways of the world would take personal effort. You know daily saying, okay "I won't watch all the shows everyone is watching, or I won't say those bad words." But, this is a very works based viewpoint. I really thought that I had to DO all these things to please God, and that would further my relationship with Him. But I got it completely backwards. I needed to look at the entire verse. Because when you are transformed by the renewing of your mind, you won't want to follow the ways of the world. God wants to transform our hearts and our minds, and out of that we won't look like the world. Because, "out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks" - Luke 6:45.
And we won't be transformed until we offer our lives to God, in complete surrender. This is true worship.
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