What if we all picked a day to do something that is uncharacteristically us, like stopping to help somebody when we are crazy busy, or going out of our way to be polite, or even protecting somebody from a verbal outlash? What if that day is today and every day going forward? What would happen to the people around us?
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. (2 Corinthians 5:13-15 ESV)
I want us to meditate on this idea that Paul writes about: try living your life for more than yourselves, and for a greater purpose than whatever this world offers. Be controlled by love, go out of your way, not selfishly or out of guilt, but because Jesus did something crazier so that he could teach you and me. I know there are plenty of things I need to change about my own day to day lifestyle if I want to live this way, I pray that we can change our lives in faith, so that we can live with the God who is raises from the grave.
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