"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 be 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 of of the deep gratitude for that God has given me, especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as everyone 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 we we do for him."
Romans 12: (1-5) The Message (MSG)
I truly love this portion of scripture from the Message. The book of Romans was written by the Apostle Paul. This epistle is the most complete exposition of the central truths of Christianity.
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