Inside Out

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

August 6, 2025

Inside Out

Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.

Romans 12:2 (MSG) 

The NLT renders this verse as, “let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.” As we seek the life in Christ as our way of life, God is working within us to change the way we think about Him, our neighbors and ourselves. God’s mission to form Christ within us changes us from the inside. The Apostle Paul affirms this thought in Philippians 2:5 when he wrote, “let your bearing towards one another arise out of your life in Christ Jesus.” (NEB 1961)

One of my wife Cheryl’s favorite prayers is, “Please God show me your perspective on this.” Mostly this is a prayer to understand circumstances or a particular situation. However, we can also apply this prayer to our personal life by asking God to show us his perspective on our thoughts and our desires. As an example, the Al Anon program teaches participants the acrostic, HALT. When you are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired, you are especially susceptible to your addictions or to your codependent behaviors. This prayer of asking God for his perspective can help us go deeper in understanding our ways of thinking that are contrary to our life in Christ Jesus.

My Takeaway: We saw on August 1, 2025, that God wants to restore our soul. (Psalm 23) When God changes us inside out, God is restoring our soul.

Sē’lah

My book on prayer,

First Think, Then Pray

is now available on Amazon Kindle.

 

(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

Copyright © 2025 by Alex M. Knight

 

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