Forget the Ideal – Go for the Real
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 (MSG)
Today's devotion speaks to our real lives. We sometimes drift off into a dream world or ideal settings but know they never materialize. This is not a call to abandon working toward the ideal but it is a call not to make the ideal an idol. Our ideal of ideal and God's may be two quite different things. When tough times come to our lives we ask, "How could God let that happen?" It doesn't meet our idea of the ideal. But God see the entirety of our lives and knows what we need today to prepare us for tomorrow. The tough time today may be to strengthen us for tomorrow. God's ideal is for us to trust Him in every circumstance, not just the ideal. Often the ideal is simply imaginary or wishful but the love of God is constant and real. It is that love that we are to experience and share with others. Disney World has "Fantasyland" a place where everything is perfect and anything can happen. Fantasyland is in the Magic Kingdom, a place where we visit because we know that it does not exist anywhere else. Why do we try to create a fantasyland in our lives. It is much more productive to use our energy dealing with what is in ways that please God.
To go for the real means that we place our everyday ordinary lives as a daily offering to God to be used by Him as He pleases. Then we will experience all He has for us and that is reality. God meets us and uses us in real ways when we are fully dedicated to him.
Go for the real and make a difference for Jesus today.
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