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the simple life?

Place Your Life Before God

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 12v1-2

is this the path to "life to the full"?

it seems that every time i have a chance to share God's word with people, this text is always at the forefront of my thoughts. everytime i look to theology, i look at it through the context of the reality in this passage. it seems that all of our interpretations of spirituality - traditional, modern, post-modern, emergent, post-emergent; try to communicate this truth in a way that calls it's followers to a deeper conviction to live out this "life of surrender".

one could argue that the path to full life is one of "loving God and loving people". no more and no less. and while i agree, i wonder if a life of loving God and loving people can only take place after we surrender every aspect of our life to God. then, and only then, will we be able to love God and people without any selfish agenda. no motives of saving people, no desires to prove our love to God. isn't this the life Jesus lead? one of complete and total surrender to His father, a complete and total devotion to His father, and then a complete and total devotion to people.

can the path to "life to the full" be this simple? and this hard?



...or maybe i'm just simple.

posted by nathan sean @ Thursday, February 10, 2005