Room For Improvement
“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 to 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.”
– Romans 12:1-2 (MSG)
The greatest room in any house is the room for improvement.
This room should never be empty. There is always something we can work on within ourselves. The word says to judge ourselves that we may not be judged (I Corinthians 11:31-32). Why would God tell us to do something that is unnecessary? The short answer is: He wouldn’t.
Recently I had an opportunity to give my opinion on certain individuals who work in the same industry as I do. I was very adamant in my opinion about them and that I would rather swim to Japan from California than work with them. Then God put me right back in my place and reminded me of the new testament commandment He gave us: “To love one another.” (John 15:12).
So you see, because I left myself open to hear from the Spirit of Truth, I was and am able to correct myself. Rearrange my heart furniture, if you will. Be open to God’s interior design in the home of your heart. He’s really great at it!
Amen.
Priscilla Hairston,
