| Romans 12:2 – “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.“ |
Hello again-or hello still, Father!
I need your help, Lord. I’ve come to realize that with a cell phone in my hand so often and streaming services one or two clicks away, that sometimes I don’t know exactly where I begin or end. That is, I find it easy to become immersed in video, audio electronic information and entertainment.
Dear Father, I want to stay immersed instead in prayer with you and in looking for both wisdom and application reading your words from the Bible. When I do these last two things, I am clearer about who you made me to be and how I can continue to glorify You, the one, true God.
Lord, I realize I’m asking for your help again with a type of self-control. Galatians 5:22-25 lists spiritual traits by which I may grow closer to you and includes “self-control”. I seek more self-control in separating myself from electronic media and from other impulses I am tempted to give into which can keep me further from your Deity. I want to keep the warning in Romans 12:2 clear to “…not conform to the pattern of this world, but to be transformed by the renewal of my mind.” Right now, the pattern seems electronic everything!
Please help me, dear Father, to think about my choices in using actions, time, or words so I may purposefully choose that which keeps me closest to you. Proverbs 25:28 gives me the practical view that a person who lacks self-control is like “…a city whose walls are broken through. That is how I think and feel when I am enticed by the media away from you: my boundaries of who I am as yours are in risk of crumbling!
I seem to be impatient so often and offer praise to you for allowing me many opportunities throughout my life to learn and apply patience. I think about the advice in Proverbs 16:32, “better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city”. Perhaps, now that I am writing this, it is this very impatience that I have struggled with on and off, that is contributing as I now acknowledge and prayerfully reveal to you how I need you to lead me in being still, in helping me recognize I have choices, and in choosing that which keeps my heart closest to your side.
-Diana Boone
