Participating in Spiritual Worship

Remembering the Covenant

Romans 12:1-2, 6-8 The Message

Place Your Life Before God

12 1-2 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.
6-8 If you preach, just preach God’s Message, nothing else; if you help, just help, don’t take over; if you teach, stick to your teaching; if you give encouraging guidance, be careful that you don’t get bossy; if you’re put in charge, don’t manipulate; if you’re called to give aid to people in distress, keep your eyes open and be quick to respond; if you work with the disadvantaged, don’t let yourself get irritated with them or depressed by them. Keep a smile on your face.

For Reflection

A Christian life is a life lived as a prayer. It is a life that is centered by the Holy Spirit.  It is a life of humble service in ways that honor God and advance God's Kingdom.  It is a life lived unselfishly. It is an ordinary life lived extraordinarily!

Pray

Pray prayers of thanksgiving and praise for God who has made you in God's image, a creative being, entrusted with the well being of God's creation.  Pray so that you can be a humble collaborator in God's will for humankind.

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