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an offering

i read this this morning and it hits me everytime i read it.

especially since i am rapidly moving towards a season of busy, busy, busy. my days will be filled with creating, teaching, encouraging, and doing. much of it revolving around me, focusing in things that are my deal.

this passage is always a reminder that it is not about me!

what we do should be done on a different, more meaningful plane. we need to move away from the plane of self and truly view our actions, our creations, our doings, and our thoughts as things greater than they appear and place them on the plane of worship. then... we, along with all of the "stuff" we do, become God's.

"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.

I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him." romans 12 v 1-3

posted by nathan sean @ Friday, August 26, 2005