Wake up early. Shower and get dressed. Fight traffic all the way to the office. Drink bad free coffee or overpay for decent coffee. Attend endless repetitive meetings. Work late to keep from getting too far behind. Fight traffic again as you rush home. Finally get to bed way to late. Repeat. Repeat.. repeat…
Our days are mundane. Predictable. Often grating. It feels like we exist only to survive into the next day.
Is this a LIFE? Our dreams are of…what? A Bigger House? Nicer Cars? A more stressful job?
You have to go to work. You have to get that paycheck on Friday because Saturday morning everyone wants their money. Mortgage. Car Payments. Credit Card Bills. Insurance. Equity Line. Not to mention the neighbors just got that new mower and their lawn is perfect. Your brother got the latest gadget that everyone else got last week.
Is this what are lives are suppose to be about!?
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.
What if we actually lived what the Bible teaches? How would that change us? How could that change our culture?
What if we started with just a few simple ideas
1. Work when you are at work.
2. Don’t be normal (which is broke) – Get out of debt.
3. Give. Stuff, time and especially money (if you can’t make it with 90% that extra 10% won’t matter)
4. Rest. Seriously, slow down and just BE from time to time.
Just a thought. Got one? Please share.