“…be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48)
“The secret of a Christian’s life is that the supernatural becomes natural in him as a result of the grace of God, and the experience of this becomes evident in the practical, everyday details of life, not in times of intimate fellowship with God.” (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, 9/20)
How easy it is for us to separate our spiritual life and our everyday “non-spiritual” life; compartmentalizing each piece into its own nice neat package. But that is so not how God wants us to live. Everything we do this day, however big or small, however liked or disliked by you, we do for God. Whatever it might be. Think about the most mundane thing you did today, God was with you in that moment, right by your side. Everything he has given us in this life, and what we do with it, is for his glory.
So, you think “being perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect” sounds tough. You bet! That’s just the point. You can’t do it. There is no way for us to do it. We can only do it in God’s grace; through his working in our life – our everyday life, not just in our prayer time or our God time, but in the everyday.
It is in walking with him, each moment of every day, that we will be touched by his love for us; his intense love that will consume our life. Just think about how the Creator of the universe so wants to come into your life and take it so beyond your wildest imagination. “The true expression of Christian charater is not in good-doing, but in God-likeness.” (Chambers)
Thank you God, for your burning love for me. May I open my heart to you in the practical, everyday details of life; touching my life in ways that I cannot even imagine.
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