Take Your Everyday, Ordinary Life – Your Sleeping, Eating, Going-To-Work, And Walking Around Life – And Place It Before God As An Offering.

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Take Your Everyday, Ordinary Life –
Your Sleeping, Eating, Going-To-Work, And Walking Around Life –
And Place It Before God As An Offering.


Scripture

Romans 12

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
Romans 12 (MESSAGE)

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.

Observation

Why is the temptation to sin greater when Friday rolls around? People go out clubbing, get drunk, act out in all sorts of bad ways on Friday nights. 

Have you ever gone to the emergency room on a Friday night? It is totally crazy! I guess Fridays and Saturdays are like that because most people are off work on the weekends. 

So here is our choice, we can take our everyday, ordinary life, our sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking around life – and place it before God as a living sacrifice today or we can live like the world, by selfishly lying, cheating, and indulging ourselves in behavior that dishonors God. It is our choice everyday, but especially on weekends. 

How are we going to spend our time this weekend, indulging ourselves in sinful pleasure or pleasing God? 

The choice is ours to make?

Application

I choose to live my life as a living sacrifice today. How about you?

Prayer

Heavenly Father, I know that I always have a choice to either live for myself or live for You. Help me to make good decisions. Help me make decisions that honor You. I pray for my children today. I pray that You would help them to make decisions that bring You honor. Protect them from messing up their lives with sin. Draw them close to You today. Give them understanding and discernment. Help them to be wise to the traps of this world. 

Daily Bible Reading:  Romans 9,10,11,12

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