Romans 12:1-2 (NLT) (focus verse 2a)
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…
Changing the way we think involves refusing to let our thinking be patterned after the thinking of those who don’t know God. It means allowing our minds to be enlightened to spiritual understanding through the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:17-18). It means surrendering our bodies to God in order to enable the Holy Spirit to do His renewing work within us. And it means that our new way of thinking will come into conflict with those “whose thinking may be diametrically opposite to that of God (see Luke 16:15). Ask God to help you think like He thinks.