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. 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. Romans 12:1-2 (The Message)
The other day a great friend shard this scripture with me. It hit me so hard that it has altered the way I live. I love when God’s word does that. I love how it challenges you to live differently. In EVERYTHING I do may it be an offering to the Lord. This is so hard, because I love to live for myself and I want everything to be about me. Its my feelings, its my emotions, its my life and frankly ITS NOT! My life is HIS!Its so humbling to understand and see that where God has placed me. I need to have joy and not gripe or complain because there is the bigger picture that he wants me to see. I have spent the last year of my life fighting what “culture” thinks I should be and have discovered who my Heavenly King wants me to be. What the world intended for evil He has turned around for good. Now is my time. No more insecurity holding me back from moving. No more fear crippling the voice inside of my that is crying to come out. Its time to mature up and answer the call he has placed on my life. Time to live audaciously with no regrets. Join me! Fight with me! Now is the time we take back what the enemy stole from us and reclaim it for the Lords Glory!
I love this song! May you be blessed as I was.
