Square Watermelons???

Read Romans 12:1-5

There was a time; I do not know if they still do this, that farmers in Zentsuji, Japan, were preparing full-grown watermelons for shipment—only these are no ordinary melons, they're square! They were placed in tempered-glass cubes while they were still growing. Why would anyone want a square watermelon? They're much easier to store in a refrigerator!
It's amazing to think of how a naturally spherical watermelon can become square because of the shape of the container in which it's grown. By the pressure of the glass the watermelon automatically adapted to its surroundings. Within the confines of the glass box, the watermelon changed not only its shape, but also the way that it naturally developed.
Unfortunately, some of us, if not all of us, have at some time dwelled within the confines of a pressurized glass box called the world. The forces in the world have a way of exerting their influence on us and attempt to shape us. That's why in Romans 12:2 we are told not to be "conformed to this world," but to be "transformed by the renewing of [our] mind." The idea is rather simple: We are to allow the transforming Word of God to work within us and produce outward results, instead of permitting external pressures to shape us. Also, notice that its work is done in the mind. I am not a strong proponent of “positive thinking” as far as if you think it, it will happen, but I do believe that if our minds are rightly conformed to the Word of God, we will be able to have peace in whatever circumstance life carries.
There are too many people that have just adapted to the pressures of the world. In doing so, they have allowed the elements to change who they really are. I know of people that were dynamic leaders that wouldn’t be able to lead someone out of a shoe box because the world has so distorted who they should have been. I see people everyday that have gotten so used to living in the pressure of the world that they no longer fit the design of their Creator. We were created in HIS image, and some of us have allowed worldly pressures to distort that great creation into something that is odd and distorted.
I believe that God is calling us back to meditation on His Word daily, it will influence our thoughts and help us grow to be more like Jesus Christ (II Corinthians 3:18). Then we will act in a manner that pleases Him and we will become the persons that we were originally developed to become. Pressures of the world will continue to try to shape our character, but they will not succeed if God's Word is changing us from within. If we are being transformed by the Word, we won't be conformed to the world.

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
- Rita Mae Brown