(Rom 12:2, Philip. 4:11-13, John 8:32)
Throughout the week, there was a thought stuck in my head and it was really just how Jesus would be your pilot. He is behind you with the wheel on the ship so you will be sailing the right direction - and then God is the point your ship is sailing towards ... an invisible line that Jesus' sees to lead you on the right path - & finally the Holy Spirit blowing that breeze you need so that you will be able to sail or else it would be floating in mist of the ocean for me.
Romans 12:2-3 (The Message)
Place Your Life Before God
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.
3 I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.
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Our lives are filled with different programming. Our upbringing, cultural and worldly programming affects and influences us more than we realize - it will shape us and move us - hence if you observe carefully yourself, you will know what is our programming then being aware will lead us to right living by having the right thoughts. Pine brought up a sign he saw outside while driving, outside a Vietnamese church the sign read: "God seems so far away .......................Guessed who moved?"
Our change in our life, true change will last if we perform it from the INSIDE-OUT out and not the other way around.
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