walking with/ abiding in…
how is it that this world is so consuming and pushy and i just give into it’s siren call to move me around, adjust my world, schedule, actions. i’m a man in need of God’s help and grace. i can say that so confidently, but do i walk in the grace that is available to me? why not? what am i running from? why don’t i walk in the grace available? that is the question….
“do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is. His good pleasing and perfect will.†- romans 12.2
it’s interesting, if not significant, that i think to romans 12.2 w/o first going to romans 12.1. what’s going on there?
“i urge you brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of worship.†- romans 12.1
there is good stuff there for me.
q:
do i rise in the am, w/ the mindset of “Lord, today i offer my body, my actions, my thoughts to you as worship. do i give you all of myself to you, help me to listen, help me to follow, help me to see and perceive and to obey w/ joy?”
a:
simply, no.
i keep thinking of how the lack isn’t in God. it isn’t in the grace that He’s withholding from me, but rather in my attention to it. may the Lord bring me to a place where i will turn. that He’d bring me to a place where i could experience Him like this, in that way, in that experience of really walking with Him.