Enjoy your morning coffee and "chat" with Kathy about all aspects of life especially as it relates to being healthy. Using God's Word to illuminate truth is the major focus of this morning blog. This blog only posts Monday-Friday.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Embrace God!
Romans 12:1
The Message (MSG)
Place Your Life Before God
12 1-2 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.
When reading this in the NIV, it uses the phrase living sacrifices and we are instructed to offer our bodies as such. But when I think of a living sacrifice sometimes I don't get a good picture in my mind. I have to switch the channel and not allow myself to see babies being given to gods that don't exist. I choose, on the other hand, to see myself approach God's throne of grace and smile as I connect with His eyes and embrace. (wow, that rhymes and I didn't try) I can see myself take my money, my pastoral responsibilities, my relationships and place them gently at the feet of the One who gave me everything, as on offering. Some of those need to be placed as sacrificial offerings. Amen! But can I honestly say that my health choices (food, hydration, rest) could be considered as an offering before the Lord? Honestly - some days yes and some days no. I cannot tell you how many people I have spoken with in the past couple of weeks who are too busy to hydrate, too busy to rest and too busy to plan healthy meals. That's TOO busy! Then I wonder, are we embracing God's best plan for us?
I have embraced the concept that offerings are the best that we have to bring. Let's pause this morning and consider as we place our daily activities in the hands of our heavenly Father, can we honestly say they are an offering unto Him? That's a lot to consider. Embrace God this day! PK (yikes, rhyming again)
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