By Allen White
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 (MSG)
Most
versions that we read use words like “living sacrifices.” These concepts are
easily disconnected from the course of our everyday life. I like how Eugene
Peterson explains this familiar passage in The
Message.
God isn’t
looking for some sort of added on spiritual component to our lives. He wants us
to fully surrender all that we have and all that we are. In God’s view,
brushing our teeth is just as spiritual as raising our voices in worship. We
are spiritual beings. Everything we do is spiritual.
We are
whole beings. God wants us to worship Him with our whole selves.
As you go
about your day today, what things would you be tempted to think are completely
“unspiritual”? I would encourage you to stop during the course of your day and
remember that God is with you. What you do is important to him.
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