How to form into a mold.

Romans 12:2

Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold,
but let God re-make you so that your whole attitude of mind is
changed. Thus you will prove in practice that the will of God's
good, acceptable to him and perfect.

Phillips

I love the Discovery Chanel, the Learning Chanel, the Science Chanel well you get the picture. I think I have seen every episode of "How do they do it?" or any of the show about how they make stuff. I see how things are created, it is really interesting. You can see the spinning bottles being filled with soda at it seems, a hundred miles per hour. All the different machines, assembly lines, equipment it just amazes me, I love those shows.

The "How Do they Do it" shows about making shoes was on the other day, I have seen it before, more then likely more then once. I am always amazed by the making of the shoes soles. They whip together some liquid plastic, rubber, and some other stuff pour it into a mold of the sole, and apply heat and whamo there is a sole. Wait a minute, I need to back up a bit, they what? Yeah they pour the liquid into a mold and do what? "Apply Heat". You see the heat makes the liquid completely form into the mold around it. It hardens into the shape of the mold.

You get where I am going don't you? When your trying to mold yourself into something or someone you want to be, it is hard to fit. But when the HEAT is applied, you the liquid becomes soft and runs right into the mold. This can be good or it can be bad. If your trying to squeeze into the worlds mold, any friction, heat, anger, .....will cause you to "fit right in" it seems. The question remains only which mold are you trying to form into? The world's idea of success, to be like a celebrity, to "fit in" with the crowd that you see as "it", or "the "IN" Crowd"? Or to be molded into the image of Christ? The heat is going to be applied whatever mold you have aligned yourself with and when it does, what happens next? You'll become soft and pliable and "fit right in".

".......but let God re-make you so that your whole attitude of mind is changed......" See in the shoe factory, if there is a shoe sole that is not right, not perfect, then they can remake it. They simply re melt it and start over. God can remake us, if we allow Him to. We, unlike a shoe sole, have free will. God WILL NOT do anything without our permission. Sometimes a shoe sole mold might just need a piece cut away, or to be trimmed, maybe it can be made perfect. But I believe it would be easier to just melt it down and start over. God does what is needed. If we need to be reworked, have pieces trimmed off, snip snip here, snip snip there, then that is what He wants to do. However, He may want to just "melt you down" and reform you in His image. In life the "melting you down" means HEAT, problems, worlds falling apart, even "Job type" tests, that seem cruel. But out of the "fire" comes a new creature in His image.

Satan supplies the heat, but God allows it. Satan thinks he is doing a good job of getting you to the "Dark Side" if you will, but God uses this for His glory. All of us experience things that we or God, for that matter did not want to experience. But these experiences go into our makeup, who we are, our whole lives. We are never the same after things like this happen to us. Our experiences, good or bad, change us always. God will use these, good or bad, to help us realize who we are in Him, and to help others who are experiencing the same type things. Yes, the ole :"What Satan meant for harm, God will use for His glory" IF we allow Him to.

Why does God sometimes need to "remake" us? ..."So that your whole attitude of mind is changed." Oh, there it is. Attitude of the mind. Arrogance, pride, selfishness, anger, resentment, revenge, hatred, bitterness, all the things of human nature, it seems. They need to be replaced with: humility, thinking of others first, freedom, love, joy, caring, sharing, ........so God WILL remake that mind and replace all the bad thoughts, attitudes with good, IF we allow Him to.

".....Thus you will prove in practice that the will of God's good, acceptable to him and perfect."---I love this last line. "prove in PRACTICE that the will of God's good, acceptable to him and perfect." My translation would be: "Don't just read, or talk about it, do it, put it into practice what you are reading. Live it, show others that He is real in your life, prove that what you say is what you truly believe."

As the rapture of the church gets closer and closer, it is going to get hotter and hotter. Don't become soft and pliable, don't start to form into the world as we live here, but be "transformed by the renewing of your mind". As we all know, the battle is in the mind, what starts in the mind can become reality, we MUST keep the mind on the things of the Lord.

The pressure, the heat is being applied, what mold have you aligned with? When that cylinder comes down to push you into that form, what form will you become? Heat, pressure, they will harden us into what we are to become. Stay close to the things of God, the Bible, a good bible based fundamentally sound church, friends who are believers, THEN you will be ready to face the pressure, Heat? Bring it on. Then we will be able to share the things of God with others. Others will be in awe of our lifestyle, our joy, our determination in times of disaster. Our lives will reflect God's love just as the moon reflects the Sun's light.

"Don't let the world around you squeeze you into it's mold.." but rather change the world.