“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.” Romans 12:1-2 MSG
To embrace is to hold someone or something closely; to accept someone or something willingly and enthusiastically! How amazing is it that we can know the embrace of God; that we can know His closeness, His acceptance of us, His willingness to cover us with His love. We see and experience all of this in Jesus! But His embrace does more than just hold us, it also changes us as we embrace Him back, as we hold on to Him; as we accept what He has done for us, as we accept our status as His children and now His Kingdom representatives! Embracing God means embracing change. Lord, thank You for loving me, as I fix my attention on You today would You continue to change me from the inside out, my life lived as an offering to You, clearly seen and known as Yours. Amen 👆🏼❤️