Scripture: Romans 12:2
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, for sale fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.

Thought for the Day: We’re hypnotized by modern life. We wake up to the glow of our iDevices, check get into our cars, switch on the navigation systems and the radio, and drive obliviously to work. Once at work, we stress ourselves out or break our backs to make enough money to pay our mortgage, bills, education costs, and to put food on the table for our families. The next day, we do the same thing all over again. All because our culture tells us “more is better” and “everyone for themselves.”

This is completely contrary to a life lived in the fullness of God’s love. We don’t need to be running the rat race, caught in a circular maze that always keeps the cheese a couple feet away from us. If we focus our attention on God rather than on attaining material wealth, everything changes—for us, and for the world. Instead of fighting traffic, getting irritated and being grumpy all day, we find a calling—something we love to do, that we gladly wake up to do; something that serves others, not just Mammon.

We have a duty to care for each other. This American civilization of corporate control, of insurance companies that insist you don’t really need that operation, or hospitals that bankrupt you for healthcare; this American civilization of scratching and fighting and lying your way to the top of the heap (and it is a heap)—it must end. And the only way things get better for all of us, is when we begin to focus on the unconditional love of God and reflect unconditional love in our own lives.

Let God change you from the inside. Lose your stress. What are you fighting for anyway? Another car? Another house? Find the true peace and happiness that comes from service to others. Find God. Change the world. Do it now.

Prayer: Find me, God of love, and fill my soul with the desire to live for others, to see through the veil of selfishness and greed, and to be transformed into a new being. Do it now, God! Do it now! Amen.