“Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God- this is your true and proper worship. Do not confirm to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,Then you will be able to test and approve what is God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
Roman 12-1-2
In order to walk in God’s perfect will and to fulfill our purpose on earth is actually to run our race well, to possess all God has for us. We have to be prepared to walk the narrow road, live outside of our comfort zones, refuse to conform to this world’s ways, refuse to just follow the crowd and to be in this world but not of it. We have to go against the grain of culture and be salt and light in this dark world and to be willing to die for ourselves daily. However challenging it this we need to sacrifice and lay down our lives meaning rejecting the world desire for our flesh
Rejecting the world – it might mean unconditionally loving, showing respect to them who are always rejecting, you sharing and standing for your faith even though you are getting ridiculed, resisting the world standards of beauty and perfection but staying true to the way God’s has for you, not joining in gossip, submitting to Leadership, giving up dream, passion, or career and spending time with God in worship following God’s commandments fasting etc.
Every second we need to remind ourselves, we are actually heavenly citizens who are only on this earth to prepare for eternity and our purpose is far bigger than just living life the way everyone else is in this temporary world, although devil does that and try to steal our divine purpose by distracting us, and keeping us so involved in this earthly realm and what’s going in our family drama, all our emotions, unforgiveness, financial troubles, being offended etc, devil tricks keep us entangled.
Do not love the world or anything in the world ,if anyone loves the world, the love of Father is not in him . For everything in the world- the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does- comes not from Father but from the world. The world and it’s desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. These verses clearly shows us love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.
1John2:15-17
Practically everything that goes on in the world -wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out- but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. When we live and love this world, we live wanting to please ourselves and to please others, but when we focus on God we live to please God. If we are truly concerned with pleasing God we have to hate our lives in this world. That is meaning we have to willing to die for this world.
That is what we read in John 12;25-26
“The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life , whoever serves me must follow me, and where i am my servant will be , My Father will honor the one who serves me.
IMAGINE BIBLE IS LIFE, CALLING,PURPOSE,PRESENCE
WHEN WE ARE ENTANGLED IN THIS WORLD WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THE THINGS HOLDING US HOSTAGE AND KEEPING US AWAY FROM LIFE IN ABUNDANCE.
Prayer
Heavenly Father break off our all entanglement, attachment, fear, comfort zones, approval of man, fear of condemnation, but fill us with your fresh love, a fresh hunger for a life that is worthy of the calling, a fresh grace to live as a soldier on mission.
PLEASING TO ONLY WHO GAVE IT ALL. AMEN
–Sol Kamal