Everyday, Ordinary Lives

The words of Romans 12:1 serve as the bedrock for this blog.

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. (MSG)

Paul's words encourage us to see that all aspects of our lives qualify for serving as sacrifices to God - as long as we turn them over to Him and they are not in contradiction to His way and will.  Any career dedicated to God, that is within God's established moral parameters, can glorify Him.  Any college major can open the door for the student to live his/her life for Christ.

• Godly fathers "daddy" as an offering to God.
• Jesus-following teachers instruct - remembering that Jesus "sits" in one of the student desks.
• Christian attorneys litigate with integrity.
• Christ-like physicians treat patients as children of God.
• Kingdom-of-Heaven-minded politicians administrate with God's interests in mind.

In what ways do you "take your everyday, ordinary life and place it before God as an offering"?  Let me know.  Post how you live out Romans 12:1.  I look forward to hearing from you.

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