Do you consider yourself a strong warrior? So many folks these days are “work-out-aholics” and have the strength of Godzilla. (My youngest son is in the gym for his mega workout every day at 5:30 a.m., before he showers and heads off to work.  Whew!)

Romans 12:1-2 (in The Message version of the Bible) tells us: “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 on 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.”

Ok, Paul does not suggest that each of us must be physically fit, nor does he say we must be so well-read that we are head of the class in knowledge, what he does stress is if we give ourselves to God, focusing our attention on Him, His strength will be within us.

Let’s face it, life is filled with tough battles. They might slam you when you are 10, or 14, or 39, or 81.  Life isn’t a lovely bed of roses for anyone. However, you can focus on God and offer each of your days to Him. He will enable His followers to be strengthened by Him and become His strongest warriors. Our God, who loves you unconditionally, awaits you. Offer Him your day, each and every day. Trust Him and He will bring out the very best of you. Your tough battles will be handled by God as your commander and you as His strong warrior.

Jill