simplicity...these are just my jumbled thoughts

"...be transformed by the renewing of your mind"

today i read romans 12. it is amazing how packed it is. as i was reading i was thinking about how we try so hard to be a good person, we talk about being a woman or man of God. how someday we'll be the person we were meant to be. and then i read romans 12. it is written so clearly and so simply. yet we can't seem to get it right, we still hurt the ones we love, fall into the same patterns, and feel useless. if we just take the time to read the word God will so plainly reveal to us how to be happy, purpose-driven, loving, and how to continue to grow closer to God and closer to just a happy, complete person, and will begin to see what we are capable to do. i think we over complicate things sometimes, if we overcomplicate it we begin to feel like we have an excuse for the things we do and how we act. when it's complicated and so far off we justify how we are living now. and it's not even about the "bad stuff" it's about the deep intimate relationship with God that is so available if we just pursue him. if we just set aside or insecurities, our own motives, when we surrender our pain and brokenness to Him we can enter into the kind of life we can never get by ourselves. i think if we can grasp the simplicity of romans 12 and the nature of the gospel we will truly be transformed more and more like Jesus everyday.


romans 12

love sincerely
hate what is evil
cling to what is good
be devoted to one another in brotherly love
honor others above yourselves
never be lacking in zeal but keep your spiritual fervor by serving the Lord
be joyful in hope
patient in affliction
faithful in prayer
practice hospitality

do not be overcome by evil BUT overcome evil with good

live at peace with others!


"...then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will"