Do Not Conform

The facts are the facts, and the facts are subject to change. If you focus on your present reality you won’t be able to change it. To have a successful journey you have to find out where you are (You are Here) and then be able to envision where you are going. If you just keep looking at your present circumstances and thinking, “I don’t know what to do” then you have immobilized and stupefied yourself and that’s the fact. It’s time to get moving and it’s more important see where you are going then where you are or where you’ve been. I’ve never seen a car with windows on the floor boards because looking down upon where you are will get you nowhere. Lift up your head and be encouraged about your future because it’s your life and you can go where you want to. Look out for yourself. Don’t accept the popular opinion and limitations of the present mindset. Pioneers see things that others can’t and often suffer ridicule for it. “They” used to say, “If God would have wanted men to fly He would have given him wings” but who looks stupid now? The Wright brothers were right even though most everyone said they were wrong. They could see something that the brainwashed majority could not. In the story of most great discoveries there is someone who was willing go beyond the boundaries and make a new map. If you think of Einstein, Columbus, Franklin, Lewis and Clark, Bannister, the Wright brothers and Chuck Yeager they all have one thing in common. They were not limited by the facts of the time. But by unconventional thinking bold deeds they changed the reality. You might not be the next great inventor, reformer, explorer or barrier breaker but you might. One thing’s for sure, you are the only one who can change your own mind and explore a new frontier. So you have a choice, you can follow and focus on facts and live according to their rule or you can meditate on the truth of God’s Word and find unlimited potential. If you see yourself the way the world says you are then you let them define you. But if you realize you are “a work in progress” being contrived by the Creator then all things are possible. You are not limited to what you know, you are only limited to what you will let God show you. If you will meditate on Gods Word and accept His way of thinking you will transform your mind and soon find yourself doing things that were formerly impossible.

Rom 12:2
NKJV
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
MES
Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out.
NIV
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
TLB
2 Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how his ways will really satisfy you.
Wuest
And stop assuming an outward expression that does not come from within you and is not representative of what you are in your inner being but is patterned after this age; but change your outward expression to one that comes from within and is representative of your inner being, by the renewing of your mind,
AMP
Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude]