So I have been preparing for a lock in that I am doing tomorrow night, and the theme for the weekend is the power of a changed life. And I am working from Romans 12:1-2. Mainly i have really been reflecting on what it means to sacrifice. I am coming to an understanding that it means that we need to stop what is comfortable and natural to us, turn our back on what the world thinks about us and start giving it over to God. I hear so many people say things like “I just don’t know what God wants from me?” I think alot of that has to do with the fact that they are not sacrificing it all for God.

I love the way that the message paraphrases these two verses:

“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.”

Wow, i think this paraphrase is really moving. What is it that I have in the way of really sacrificing for God?