Romans 12:1-2

Here is some words from the Word, in the form of The Message by Eugene Peterson. Romans 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 informed maturity in you.

Great passage! I love the embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. How awesome is that! I feel like sometimes I wear myself out thinking if I doing the right things and if God is pleased with me. Pleased with how I am raising my kids, being a good wife, getting into the word, all that.... but how great that this passage is saying when you embrace what things that the Lord does for you and recognize Him in every aspect of your life, that is what is pleasing to Him. Nothing fancy, nothing hard... just embracing the Lord your God.

 So today take some time and sit and think in quiet about the things that God does for you. Embrace Him, cling to Him for answers when you have questions, turn to Him and not the cultural norm when you have troubles. God is there for you, ALWAYS!