don't conform

Romans 12:2 ESV

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Being like the world or loving what the world loves is a big problem. It is hard to point people to Jesus or have a great testimony if you look like or act like everyone else.

You might call this swimming up stream or being different. But what it really is about is an understanding that God has a plan. His love is different from what the world shows us about love.

Discern the difference. Seek the father. Be different and not conformed to the world. Jesus leads that direction the closer we get to Him.

1 John 2:15,17 NLT

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you…And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.

What lasts and what doesn’t? Don’t be different for the sake of being different. Be different because it is who you and who our God us too.

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