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Conformity
There is something in me that screams against conformity. For years I believed that I was rebellious because of my unwillingness to conform. Lately I have begun to wonder who the rebellious ones really are. The world would tell me that I need to conform to their social structure. The church would tell me that I need to conform to their set of rules and regulations for conduct. Rules and regulations that constantly seemed to be changing from one church to another, one group of believers to another. The rules were developed by the believers for their corner of society.
Yeshua told us to be conformed to His image and likeness. For years I let others tell me what His image and likeness looked like, rather than letting Him tell me... but then that would take more time than I had for Him. It was so much easier to let others “do the work” and tell me what He was like and how I should behave.
Recently I have become more aware that perhaps their image of Messiah was vastly different than reality. It began to feel more and more like we had created Him in our image and likeness rather than our being conformed to His.
Perhaps that is the problem I have had with conformity. Perhaps somewhere deep inside I knew that what I was being asked to conform to was not what He had asked me to conform to.
Maybe I’m not so rebellious after all…
LOMMOY ~ Less of Me, More of You
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