Be part 2
If you know who you are you can BE who you are. You can stop TRYING to be someone you're not. And that's the difference between works and labor (which don't work) and rest. That's the difference between living FOR God (as if He's your boss or some such nonsense) and living BY God. Living IN God as God lives IN you. It's the difference between TRYING to transform, and BEING transformed into what we've already been transformed into. And that's the key. The work is done. It is finished. Everything that needed to happen... happened 2,000 years ago on the cross. See, in the beginning we were made in the image of God. But we didn't know what that image was. We didn't know what WE looked like because we didn't know what GOD looked like. So we tried to get enough knowledge about good and evil to be able to stop doing evil and do good. We thought it was all about us and what we were capable of and what we were doing. When in fact it's all about love. It's all about Jesus and what HE did both for us and as us. It's not about acting like Jesus--because all that will ever be is an act. It's about BEING who we really are by letting Jesus be who HE really is in us, and through us, and as us. Look at Romans 12:2, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." The first thing to notice is that Paul tells us not to be conformed to this world. Which means we've already been brought OUT of this world. To be conformed would mean to go back to where we were. The cross translated us out of the power of darkness--out of the world--and into the Kingdom. Paul's saying, "Don't go back!" And not only don't go back, but BE where you are. Be WHO you are. BE transformed, into what you've already been transformed into. Receive it and release it. Lay hold of the gift you've been given. How? By the renewing of you mind. By letting the mind of Christ (that's already in you) BE in you. There's that little word again. We've been given the mind of Christ, but we need to use it. We need to stop trying to figure out what God's thoughts are and just let Him think them in us. And besides, we KNOW what His thoughts are. Thoughts of peace and not of evil. Righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are the peacemakers because they are the ones who behave like Son(s). What am I saying? In order to BE transformed we have to BE peacemakers. Because that's what a renewed mind is all about. It's about love. Thoughts of love produce peace. Mark the perfect man, because the end of that man is peace. When you know you're loved, and you don't have to earn it, you're at peace. And then you rest. Then you can love. Renewing your mind doesn't transform you. You've already been transformed. Renewing your mind simply manifests the transformation. Simply manifests what is already true about you!