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.
Christians are funny...we don't realize that we aren't like the world. And yet we try to fit in. We try to look like those around us. We try to wear the "world costumes." We don't do it well. The world notices that we are different. They aren't fooled so why do we try to be like those around us? Why do we try to look like the world? God invites us to be like him. He invites us to stand out...to be God's men and women in a world without hope.
Our "world costumes" look silly on us, and yet we try to fit in....let me encourage you to be what God made you to be.....transformed into the image of Christ.
3 comments:
I like what you wrote Mike. Something that God has been challenging me on also. That we are aliens and strangers to the world (1 Peter 2:11), that we are merely pilgrims and foreigners.
Hebrews 11:13 onwards say... All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. (in context, talking about men of faith such as Abraham)
God has been showing me that the customs of the Kingdom world are different than the customs of our earthly world. That we have a different 'language' (love language!?), different way of thinking, different way of doing things.
You're an incredible man of God, I love reading this blog. :)
I am assuming that's the Message you were quoting...I really like that. It succinctly states what walking by the Spirit looks like. It dispels the myth that our lives need to compartmentalized by "spiritual activities" and "non-spiritual activities." Even the simplest task can be spiritual - it's all your heart attitude about it. Thanks, Mike. I enjoyed that entry!
Samantha,
thank you for your comments. I appreciate your great insights and your comments. thank you.
Lori,
yes, it's the Message. In some passages it really does give a different view of the passage I like. thanks for your insights.
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