WHAT DO YOU DEFEND?

We're caught at the same place in our life year after year, yet we are caught defending what we've always been taught.
~Ron McIntosh~

~We naturally defend the things that we have been taught, either because we believe they are right and true or because they are comfortable to us. Some of us are content where we are, with what we have, even though we have to potential to do much more.

We settle where we are, because it is easier to stick with the things that do not challenge our comfort zones and force us to take that next step. What we have to realize, though, is that not all the things we have been taught or conditioned to believe, are necessarily true.

~However when we find the truth, we must let go of the old lessons and mindset. Anything learned can be unlearned. Until we are willing to let go the old and embrace the new, we will continue to live in mediocrity and a cycle of failure. In order to let go of the old and move forward with the new, we have to transform our minds and hearts.~

I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.

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], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
~(Romans 12:1-2) (AMP)~.