“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
One of the local churches has a sign that says “Jesus is the reason for every season”. I like that idea, that all year round you act as if there is a bigger reason for what we’re doing. A bigger reason for why we are here. Everyday we should be striving to live life as if there is a reason, as if there is a plan and a Planner. People make more of an effort to be nicer around Christmas, and I think that’s great. As humans we should be more focused on the lives of those around us. But as Christians, we should be making that extra effort every day. That joy and wonder and focus on God should be something we cultivate year round.
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