Change, change, change

Are you trying to change something about yourself or your life?

It's not easy.
But it can be made easier in one way.
Start where you are.

The most successful "change programs" start where you are.
What you spend.  What you eat.  What you do for exercise.
And then gradually help you develop better habits.

After a few days/weeks/months - you look back and see that you've changed.

As a Christian - we are called to be different, changed.
To change our ways.
Ways that we (if we're honest) are really fond of.
And not so eager to change.

It's not easy.
But it can be made easier in one way.
Start where you are.

Paul shares this advice with us in Romans 12:1-2.

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.

BONUS: If you want some quotable "words to live by" as a Christian - check out verses 9 through 21 in Romans 12.

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Lord,
Help me take my everyday life - my sleeping, eating, going-to-work and walking-around life - and live it for You.
Change me visibly and permanently.
Outwardly - just as you've already done for me inwardly with your saving grace.
Amen.
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