SQUARE WATERMELONS?

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SQUARE WATERMELONS?

Read:  Romans 12:1-5

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed

by the renewing of your mind.  Romans 12:2

Farmers in Zentsuji, Japan, are preparing full-grown watermelons for shipment-only these are no ordinary melons, they’re square!  They were placed in tempered-glass cubes while they were still growing.  why would anyone want to square watermelon?  They’re much easier to store in a refrigerator!

It’s amusing to think of how a naturally round watermelon can become square because of the shape of the container in which it’s grown.  This reminds me of the forces in the world that exert their influence on us and attempt to shape us.  That’s why in Romans 12:2 we are told not to be “conformed to this world,” but to be “transformed by the renewing of [our] mind.”  The idea is rather simple:  We are to allow the transforming Word of God to work within us and produce outward results, instead of permitting external pressures to shape us.  

If we meditate on God’s Word daily, it will influence our thoughts and help us grow to be more like Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18).  Then we will act in a manner that pleases Him.  Pressures of the world will continue to try to shape our character but they will not succeed if God’s Word is changing us from within.             AL

The Savior can satisfy fully

The heart that the world cannot fill;

His presence will sanctify wholly

The soul that is yielded and still. -Smith

If we are being transformed buy the Word,

we wont be conformed to the world.