Romans 12:1 (MSG) 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.
Romans 12:1 & 2 are probably two of my favorite verses in the Bible. When I first read the paraphrase from the Message Bible, I loved it even more. I appreciate that they truly have captured the heart of worship in everyday life.
You see, worship is not about a song or about music. Worship is taking our everyday, normal lives — our eating, sleeping, school, work, and family lives — and offering them up to God. When we do this, we really have entered into worship. The greatest thing that we can do for God is to recognize Him as the source and life behind every single moment of every single day. I think this is the kind of relationship that Adam initially had with God. He walked with Him.
Finally, one of the things I love from this Message Bible version is that it says “here’s what I want you to do, God helping you.” Living our life focused on God in worship can’t be achieved on our own with self-discipline or our own human strength. To do this, we must have God’s help. We can’t do this on our own. We must have God’s grace to enable us to live these lives in worship. May we be those worshipers that the Father is seeking as noted in John 4:23.
