“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
For me, the pattern of the world that I am to resist is selfishness. The world deifies self and places it above the Lord and His kingdom.
Allowing self to make rulings, on how I will behave to others, how I will give to others, how I will work with others, is wrong. I am a fallen creature in myself and no good things lives there. I may be able to deceive myself, but God is not fooled.
Conversely, allowing God’s word to rule is imperative. What does He say about a matter? How would He have me behave? What is He trying to achieve here? I can be guaranteed He is using my circumstances to mould my character.
Instant reactions may not be good. Always, if at possible, I must ask: God what are you doing here?
I am God’s representative on earth. I am to bring God’s kingdom principles to earth. That is my role! Amen!
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