Sunday Reading: Romans 12:1-2
Key Verse: Romans 12:2
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.
Devotion:
If you had to go on a long journey and you had two cars, one very beautiful to look at but not good on reliability, or another that was not as good to look at but was comfortable and very reliable... which would you choose for that long journey? If you sit down and think about it there is only one logical choice and that is to go for the reliable one; but far too many times in our lives we take one look and go with the looks instead. After a while we look back and see that we have made the wrong choice and think about how we should have chosen the right car and yet we still persist, we still try to finish what we have started because we don’t want to admit defeat!
Our spiritual lives are exactly like that when we are not strong. We take a look and we go with the first way that we fancy (normally the way that others have said we should go and not what we know God would have us to do) or we follow the way where the money is. And yet when we do see that we have not chosen the righteous path we still go further because we don’t want to look weak or don’t want to admit that we were wrong! It seems so stupid when we look at it from the outside and yet we get so caught up in the ways of the world that we don’t see how it can be wrong!
Our reasonable service to God is to present ourselves as best we can. That means thinking about Him first and following His ways first. That means turning down the ways of the world – even when we don’t want to let go. God is not going to let us fall flat on our faces when we put our faith and trust in Him. He wants us to realise that when we do look to the world we will only find short term gain and long term problems. He wants us to realise that our lives belong in His hands and He in us. Place your faith and trust firmly in God’s grip because He is not letting go!
Points to Ponder:
Are you being blinded by the people around you?
Is God having problems trying to talk to you?
