Loose The Lion Inside

Loose the Lion inside

Romans 12:1-2 MSG.

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.

So many people in this world are doing life, as though they have been given a sentence to serve doing this thing called adulting! And their going to have to do hard time doing things like work, responsibility and the right thing for eternity! Without ever the possibility of the parole of happiness!

They think its all about what they can do or say themselves, to affect the outcome in the situations of their life. No one cares enough, or does enough for them and then, when good things seem like there taking to long to happen, they become discouraged.

Everyone in the world wants independence, but realizes the dependence of entitlement on someone else makes or so they think, makes life easier!

Spiritually speaking, everyone wants the benefits from being dependent on God, but wants to hang on to their independence, even if they have to live below the poverty level of happiness, their entitled to!

A lot of people today don’t realize the reason they’re not happy. But the reason they’re not enjoying life is simply because their minds have been trained in the wrong direction, much to the devils amusement and doing.

The Apostle Paul had it right when he said;

“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!”

In other words, give your every waking minute to God! Look to your every need to be filled by God! Make your absolute source, the One True Living God of all possibilities, miracles and sustenance!!

So often, we say don’t put God in a box! Who are we trying to kid! It’s a sad state of affairs, but most Christians are really the ones, who are in the box.

Gods not the one in the box, we are and it’s by our own volition! Because we know in the box, it seems safe and we think we can, control what happens in our life, by what we think is safe inside the box!

When we do that, what we really do is limit what God wants to do in our circumstances and then we wonder why its taking so long in our lives, for things to happen and then somehow end up blaming Him!

That’s really some crazy thinking, wouldn’t you agree? Most people if they were to witness anyone in this situation would say, that dude needs some help, that’s some whacked up way of living!

Paul tells us the remedy in the inspired word of God as to what to do!

“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.”

So many of us, go through life on auto-pilot. This is the way I was brought up! I must do things the way I’ve been trained and equipped to live, even if it’s to a fault!

Even when things don’t happen like we think they should, we still just keep thinking, there has to be something else that I can do!

Our independence of control fights what we know is the right thing to do! And that is the cast all our cares on God and depend on His never failing promises, willingness and capabilities!

We say or think to ourselves, with the accusers encouragement! If I just keep trying, I’ll come up with something! And little by little, discouragement, doubt and defeat creeps in and those negatives become a standard way of living and cheat everyone in the box, out of every blessing that God has for you!