Everyday His Way

 “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.”

Romans 12:1 (Message)

 

Ho-Hum Everyday life!

The routines of our work-a-day world or school schedules can crowd out the priority of living for God.

Some settle into a “sameness sanity” devoid of any time for God.

We can move through life doing tomorrow what we did today which was nothing more than a repeat of yesterday.

But carving out a “special” time for God can become as ritualistic and routine as everything else on our daily planners.

How about instead – we give God the whole day and let Him direct our plans.

That doesn’t necessarily mean you stay home from work unless you hear an audible voice!

It does mean that whether at work, school, home or anywhere else; we are committed to giving God His way as He orders our steps, sometimes even re-directing them.

We often have unrealistic dreams that God can only use us on the mission field in some far-away country when truthfully, He is longing to use you to pray for your hurting co-worker one cubicle over.

The missions’ trip to a foreign land begins oftentimes with the missions’ trip to the next door neighbor.

You’ve heard it framed this way – being faithful in the little things so that God can use you in the bigger things.

If you won’t speak to your neighbor over the fence why would God send you halfway around the world to speak to someone else?

“Well that’s different” you say!

How so?

Maybe God will use someone else to share the Good News ‘story’ with them but that does not excuse us from living the Good News ‘life’ next door to them.

Everyday His Way!