Keeping Yourself Topped Up

In today’s lifestyles, we live fast paced lives, filled with stress, anxiety, worries and plenty more things that drain us. There are many solutions to improve our stamina, our daily strength and emotional drainage. We participate in outdoor activities, or we join sports clubs to stay fit, go to gyms, and eat protein filled drinks. This is only one part of our lives that needs refuelling. What about our spiritual lives, our God-given lives? Don’t they need some refuelling as well? I’m sure we reach drainage points in this area of our lives too. How about being imaginative and inventive, something which comes quite natural for men. How can we do this? What does God expect from us? I’ll offer you an answer.

Let’s look at Romans 12:1 … “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship.” What is this telling us? Let me expand on this verse further, concentrating at specific words in this verse. What a great challenge for us men, today. It dares us to engage our God-given capacities for imagining and inventing. This verse also dares us to direct these capacities toward good purposes, toward God’s purposes. Take your everyday, ordinary life and place it before God as an offering. You got it! Start by being inventive and imaginative in reaching out to others around you with the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Most times we use these capacities to feed and refuel our own lives, our own possessions, our health and wealth, but it’s not God’s purpose. He wants us to do more for Him in this world we live in.

We have to help feed and refuel others around us. Men, we are in the business world daily. We are qualified artisans, managers, leaders, CEOs, etc. We must look at others around us and use these capacities to feed and refuel others, offering them what God has offered us – salvation. Why not dedicate some of our time and focus on our families, our relatives, our friends and communities around us, using our imaginations and our inventive thoughts. We can come up with great ways to reach out and make a difference. What about you? We don’t have to go it alone. God’s Spirit is with us daily and He will guide us and lead us in the right direction. How can you change? Pray and listen to the Holy Spirit. Be still and listen and allow Him to answer you. Start by encouraging love and good deeds in your family, then relatives, friends and into the community. If it fits within God’s will it will bring fruit and new fuel for those who need a recharge in their lives. Amen.