The Pattern of This World

The Pattern of This World (by Abby Andrus)

Romans 12:2 (NIV) - Do not conform any longer 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.

When our lives were disrupted in March of 2020, we anxiously yearned for a return to “Normal Life”.  Life as we once knew it.  While the devastation of the Pandemic world was precisely that, devastating, on so many levels, the reboot has gifted us an opportunity to assess what is worth brining back, or what we might want to do differently in endemic days.  Remember God grants us the ability to start new every day; perhaps not as blatantly as a global pandemic, New Years Day, a new month, or with a new school year.  The words in Romans 12:2 invites us to assess our patterns, and to be transformed by renewal, TODAY.   

I challenge you to spend some time meditating on Romans 12:2, or perhaps listening to one of my favorite songs. “Different”, by the talented Micah Tyler. 

“And I don't wanna spend my life
Stuck in a pattern
And I don't wanna gain this world
But lose what matters
And so I'm giving up
Everything because

I wanna be different
I wanna be changed
Till all of me is gone
And all that remains
Is a fire so bright
The whole world can see
That there's something different”