As we head into day 10 of the next devotional related to dads and the one that came up is an interesting one as it is one on the topic of being popular and using that influence for the good of others. It was also interesting because even though I searched for “dad” it invites middle school students to join the devotional. I am excited to see how this devotional will play into our series of devotionals for dad and how God will choose to use it through me to help us be the dads He purposed and created and planned for us to be! Even as dads we need encouragement to recognize the influence we have. As dads, we need to also use it for the good of others! Popular is a 15-day devotional! Popular comes to us from a group name reThink Group.
Let’s check out our scriptures for today’s devotional:
‘Do not conform 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. ‘
Romans 12:2
God’s Word is alive and active and I am so glad that we have the honor and opportunity to read it and meditate on it daily. Do you realize how many people have access to the Bible now? Do you realize how many languages it has been translated into? Do you realize how many people are still missing out on getting to read the Bible in their own language? What could you or would you consider doing with these facts?
Let’s be the dads who don’t just go with the flow and conform to the ways of this world! Let’s be the dads who pattern our lives after God’s Word and God’s plans and purposes for our lives! Let’s be the dads who the renewing of our minds has transformed by spending time in God’s Word and fellowshipping with God’s people! Let’s be the dads who meditate on God’s Word in order that we may be able to test and approve what God’s will is! Let’s be the dads who meditate on God’s Word in order that we may be able to test and approve what’s good to God! Let’s be the dads who meditate on God’s Word in order that we may be able to test and approve what’s pleasing to God! Let’s be the dads who meditate on God’s Word in order that we may be able to test and approve what God’s perfect will is!
Today’s devotional has been provided by reThink Group!
Reading through today’s devotional, here are some takeaways for me:
(check out the devotional on your own too to see if you pick up other nuggets, and please share your findings in the comments)
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Takeaways from Today’s Devotional:
Don’t “get caught up in the things of this world.“
- Let’s be the dads who see the trappings of this world but don’t “get caught up in the things of this world.“
- Let’s be the dads who prioritize based on what God says is important!
- Let’s be the dads who avoid falling into the trap of measuring “what we have or don’t have against what the world tells us is important“!
- Let’s be the dads who realize that there is one standard to use in our lives and it is the Word of God!
- Let’s be the dads who don’t get tripped up by using the world’s standards because we know that “we’ll always feel like we’re coming up short“!
- Let’s be the dads who take the time daily to renew our minds as today’s verse speaks to us!
- Let’s be the dads who take the time daily to change our self-perception by changing our minds!
- Let’s be the dads who take the time daily to renew our minds by “exchanging the lies for the truth“!
- Let’s be the dads who take the time daily to renew our minds by exchanging “our natural way of thinking for God’s way of thinking“!
- Let’s be the dads who take the time daily to renew our minds because we know “that renewing your mind is much more than knowing additional information or the power of positive thinking“!
- Let’s be the dads who “choose new thoughts” in alignment with God’s Word!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to invite God into our situations when we are starting to feel like less!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to “ask God for new, true thoughts” when we start to feel like less!
- Let’s be the dads who when confronted with temptation “to think we aren’t enough, don’t have what it takes, or are falling behind, we can ask God to give us new, true thoughts“!
- Today’s devotional closes with the following challenge: