Re:Verse passage – Romans 12:1-2 (day three)
“Do not be conformed to this world…”
Only so many possibilities can be imagined within this age. Everything else gets assigned to the category of the impossible. But Jesus began to reveal that there exists more to reality than people had heretofore seen. The physical environment, the human body, relations between people – each of these domains can function only in the ways that are possible, and what’s possible had been, until Jesus, dictated by the conventional understanding of the world passed down by human civilizations. The classical philosophers had attempted to expand that understanding, and, through the prophets, God prepared Israel for what was to come. Finally, God’s Son provided the transformative power for people to see what heaven sees. Jesus said, “With God, all things are possible.” Following his Lord’s lead, Paul urges us to open our eyes to what’s really real.
