Sheep just don't look right when they try to act like tigers. Something is wrong with this picture of a sheep in a tiger's skin. But I have watched as the children of some of our "sheep" have tried to be tigers...tried to look like, live like the world. These are Christian kids acting like the world. It not new, but it doesn't look right, it's not the way it's supposed to be. Last Sunday Dave, one of our pastors, taught on this topic. I like the way "The Message" describes what Dave taught and our challenge-Rom 12:1 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life--your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life--and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
Rom 12:2 Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
If you are one of God's sheep, one of his children, don't try to be like the world. Don't try to "fit in." It looks funny! Rather, do this-
Eph 5:1 Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents.
Eph 5:2 Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
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