The Holland family went to the movies last weekend. I took my son and son-in-law to see a “man’s movie” (Transformers), Mary Ann and the girls (my daughter and daughter-in-law) went to see some animated movie about rats. Go figure.

Our movie was exciting and lived up to all of the hype. While there was little redeeming value to the movie, it did start me to thinking about being a transformer.

Not the mechanical kind, but the spiritual kind.

God calls each and every one of us to be transformers.

Think about Paul’s instruction—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. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. (Romans 12:2)

See what I mean? We’re not talking Autobots and Decepticons here, rather Paul is encouraging us to “shape shift” from the inside out. He challenges us to let God transform the way we think from the world’s way to His way.

When you think about it, we need transforming, because from birth on we are sinful people with a sin nature in a world that knows no other direction but sin. We have an “inner-decepticon” that needs the spark thrashed out of it.

Why? Read it again—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. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. (Romans 12:2)

Paul is saying that unless we’re transformed, we’ll never really know what God’s will is for our lives. We’ll just continue to go through life stuck in auto-destruct mode wondering why we feel like we’re missing something huge.

Before you were even born, God laid out a good and pleasing and perfect plan that is better than anything we could put together, but the problem is that our sinful ways have blinded us from finding and following that plan. We think the key to happiness is getting everything we want, and that value and worth is found in the way we look, the achievements we earn, or the car we drive. The truth is that these things are just that … things. When God changes the way we think, the plan He has for us shows up on the screen of our lives like a 100 foot robot ready to take on evil and save the planet!

So don’t hide in plain sight. Let God transform your mind so you can go transform your world!