Now let’s go and transform our selves. But how? Here is how. What we need is something that we should know and something that we should understand. We need wisdom combine with understanding.

Wisdom or knowledge alone is not enough. It needs understanding or involving.

Wisdom is the knowledge of what is right and what is wrong.

Understanding is doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.

Just imagine when you are still in college. You’ve studied your chosen course (e.g., accounting, engineering, marketing, etc.,) mostly on textbooks, but not in actual practice. You are able to know the subject but you have not fully understood it until you involve yourself in the actual practice.

So why is it that most people can hardly transform their selves? That is because they only know how to transform but they really don’t execute the transformation. In other words, they only use their minds and even their hearts in transforming their selves, but they don’t use their hands.

Between wisdom and understanding, the latter is the more difficult task to gain. Even the great King Solomon, who is best known for his wisdom, has sinned idolatry which is against God. That was because the great king is only filled with wisdom but lacks understanding.

Transformation is just like being born again. Being born again doesn’t only mean having a new mind and a new heart. It means you totally become a new person.  As a newly born or transformed person, you should have a new complete set of body and their functions. You must have the following:

1. New eyes to see the right things and reject to watch the unrighteous things

2. New ears to hear what is right and ignore what must be ignored

3. New nose to smell the good things and escape the bad things (just like the smell of addictive elements)

4. New mouth to eat the healthy and avoid gluttony and drunkenness

5. New mind to think what is righteous and forget what is wicked

6. New heart to love what is just and pure and resist what is foolish

7. New feet to walk the right path and oppose the road of evils

8. New hands to do the right things and stop the wrong things

If we only transform some part of our selves, we can somehow have a transformation, but it can only be temporal. After a while, the other parts of our selves, which are not renewed, will influence the transformed ones to go back to their original estate. Even if you transform your heart and mind, if your eyes are still watching things that can pull you back to your old behavior, your transformation will not become effective.  How much more if you don’t transform your hands?

If you are willing to transform yourself into a better one, you must have both wisdom and understanding. This means you must know how to transform and you must do that transformation. Finally, you must transform everything in you and not only some parts of you. Because, if you only transform some parts of you… your untransformed parts will still drag you back again to what you are before.

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