What season are you in? You may say late winter, early spring, empty nest, TAX, etc. Do you remember that we are also in the season of Lent and that makes it a great reason to read, ponder, chew on, reflect, and meditate on the 12th chapter of Romans, a handy plumb line of God. I do all of the above after reading a verse or two—too much and I might gag!—from several different versions of the Bible courtesy of biblegateway.com.
Romans 12
Place Your Life Before God
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-formed maturity in you.
Giving God our 24/7 assures our progress towards spiritual maturity, which is really just a fancy way of saying being who God wants you to be. When we habitually respond to God quickly as he beckons the worm of selfishness diminishes, the dragon of doubt scurries, forgiveness flourishes, and the love of God increases in our actions.
If you don't believe me, don't take my word for it—try it!
Mimi D
