Renew Your Understanding of Your Personal Relationship with God (Deity)
Bible study on your relationship with God.

The first two principles we have investigated are: 1) Seek God; 2) Renew your understanding of self as falling short of the glory of God. The third principle involves renewing your understanding of your personal relationship with God.

Paul instructs the Romans saying: "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Rom. 12:2). Transformed means transfigured, changed. Christians are to continuously renew (make new) their lives into knowledge, according to the will of God (Col. 2:10). By having an appropriate understanding of our relationship with God (along with a primal desire to seek Him understanding that we fall short of His glory) we are motivated to continuously renew our minds to God's praise, glory, and honor.

There are many aspects of our relationship with God expressed in Romans. Since space here is limited, the aim of this article will be to note many of the facets of man's relationship with God. Some of these aspects of our relationship (positive and negative) with God from Romans are:

1. 1:5 obedience to the faith

2. 1:7 beloved (adj.) of God

3. 1:16 called, converted, the power of God, the gospel

4. 1:18 wrath of God; ungodliness, unrighteousness

5. 1:20, 25 God, Creator

6. 1:30 haters of God

7. 2:5-8 God will render to each one according to deeds: eternal life, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish

8. 2:11 no partiality with God

9. 3:22 righteousness of God through Jesus Christ, on all who believe

10. 3:23 all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

11. 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus

12. 3:25 Jesus: propitiation by His blood, through faith

13. 3:26 God: just and justifier

14. 4:5 faith is accounted for righteousness

15. 5:1-2 justified by faith; through Jesus, through whom we have access by faith into this grace

16. 5:5 love of God poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us

17. 5:6-8 Christ died for us while we were yet sinners

18. 5:9 justified by the blood of Christ

19. 6:1 not sin that grace may abound

20. 6:3, 4 baptized into Christ, buried with Him, walk in newness of life

21. 6:5 united together with Christ in likeness of His death; shall also be in His resurrection

22. 6:10 live to God

23. 6:11 dead to sin, alive to God in Christ

24. 6:13 present members to God

25. 6:15 ff self-enslaved to God

26. 7:1-6 freed from law to marry another, Christ

27. 8:1 no condemnation in Christ

28. 8:1-2 walk according to the Spirit

29. 8:14 led by the Spirit

30. 8:16-17 adopted children of God

31. 8:26-27 Spirit helps in weakness, intercedes

32. 8:31-39 nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ

Let me encourage you to take your relationship with God seriously. Remember that it is important to personalize the aspects of our relationship to God (Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit) in order for these things to be meaningful. Those who have transformed themselves according to the will of God await the day wherein they gain entrance into their heavenly abode. But those who are conformed to this world await judgement and eternal destruction.