Re:Verse passage – Romans 12:1-2 (Day 6)
This post could be part two of Bryan’s post, Real.
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. Romans 12:1-2
What Paul describes in Romans 12:1-2 is not new, but very old, all-the-way-back-to-the-beginning old. It isn’t extraordinary or exceptional, but as image bearers, it should be the most real and normal thing a human can do. In fact, we are our truest selves and the most alive when we give ourselves wholly to God and see the world through his wisdom.
Paul asks us to “Be everything God created you to be. Be normal.”
