The Christian life

Romans 12

1. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

No matter how widely practiced an act is, heaven declares it sinful and forbidden if its against the scripture. That a way of life or certain practice is universally acceptable doesn't mean it pleases God. The principles of God's Kingdom is far different from worldly principles and practices; it is therefore an aberration for a true Christian to be conformed to worldly norms and practices.

The way to be changed and delivered from worldly customs is to fix ones attention on God through His Word. The more you keep looking into the perfect law of liberty, the more you know what is holy, and acceptable unto God. There is no way a man would not confuse worldly norms with Christian lifestyle if he is alien to the teachings of the Scripture.

As conformity to societal norms and practices makes you spiritually immature, God's Word brings the best out of you, and makes you thoroughly furnished unto good works. As you recognize what He wants from you daily, learn to respond to it. Live a transformed life. Have a blissful day.