Romans 12:2

"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."

I have a friend who designed a flyer for a small group at our church and she included the scripture of Romans 12:2 to identify the purpose of the small group: a life change through fellowship, spiritual communion, and worship.

But if we look beyond the church and more into our lives, we need to truly involve Jesus with everything we say, do, and think. Salvation cost us nothing but a life for Christ requires every limb and organ from our God-given bodies. As we walk through life, God hands us parables, crises, opportunities for intercession with the Holy Spirit, and the like. All for the renewing of our minds in order to achieve the 'impossible.'

God doesn't want us to be living as a mechanism. We have a purpose to fulfill and it's beyond our careers, daytime jobs, our money, material wealth, possessions, social stance, and it's well beyond our contempt.

God's calling us for a higher purpose and he wants us to get in check with a starting point sooner rather than later. I'm sorry if I'm sounding a bit edgy but this is another awakening for the ones who are hungry for more. In other words, God is calling for you...

"I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance, long, difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify."

- D.H. Lawrence