"Jesus says - If you are My disciple you must be right not only in your living, but in your motives, in your dreams, in the recesses of your mind." (Oswald Chambers)
In other words, a true disciple is right in all of his life, not just the outward manifestations, but in the inner man, the motives and dreams. I have the tendency to want to look good on the outside, where people can see how good I am, but not let anyone into the recesses of my mind and heart. So much of what I do is downgraded by the motive behind the action.
I thought about this as a scripture was put on the screen in our morning service today.
1. 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. 2. 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. (Romans 12:1-2..The Message)
My ordinary, everyday life..all I do is put on the line. I give up my "rights" and live for Christ alone.
One of the keys, as this version put it is "with God's help". I cannot do any of that on my own, as much as I want to. Me thinks that is why my constant prayer is "Help".
As it has been in the past, so is it today.
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