“No distinction was made between the sacred and the everyday…their life was all one piece. It was all sacred
and all ordinary.”
~ Sue Bender ~
author of Plain and Simple
How do you live your life as a Christian? Have you stopped and thought about what you do during your daily routine? Many people believe worship is what we do when we enter church (the singing, the readings, the learning). I suggest that worship is everything you do during your day.
Ephesians 5:1-2 says
“…live a life of love just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God”.
And in Romans 12:1-2 God asks that your entire body becomes a living sacrifice for Him. This means everything you do; your daily routine becomes an act of worship.
My Saturdays are taken up by football. We have to get up at 7am (did you hear me say it was Saturday), and be at the ball field by 8am. I make sure all the uniforms are cleaned, the pads are transferred to the game day pants (this is for 3 kids), and their shirts are ready to go. I then fill a cooler up with tons of water bottles and healthy snacks because we are there for three football games in a row (did I mention what time I had to get up at on a Saturday morning?).
Hubby is getting the tent we use into the car, and getting all the football pads for all three boys into the car. He takes the boys to the field, and I am off to get my coffee and bags of ice for the cooler (did I mention I do all this before coffee on a Saturday morning?).
We arrive on the field, set up the tent, set up all the chairs, place the cooler out and get ready to sit for 8 hours in the warm Florida heat (with no breeze). Christ says to be a living sacrifice in all things, and offer up a “fragrant offering …to God”. This is my everyday Saturday for the next few months, I do it gladly. I very easily could complain about getting up, I could gripe about all the “extra” responsibilities placed on me.
A person could say I do it because I love my kids, and while that is a true statement. I do it because I love God, I chose for my attitude to be pleasing to him (even before coffee), I chose to do these things as my worship to God. Here is where the sacred (worshiping God) is rolled into the everyday. I want everything I do; from doing laundry to the big things of giving up all of my Saturday’s to be pleasing to God
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