Recognize and Respond!

Finishing Strong Friday: Recognize and Respond!

Yea, that's right! Recognize that you are not to be infected as if to catch the disease called "Evil Doer" by the wrong doings, mistreatment, maladjusted, dis-proportionate activities that appear to be the norm in this world and in this life. BUT you are to effect change for the better by showing the love of God, having compassion, caring for yourself and your neighbor, encouraging the young folks to act right and to live right by nurturing and healing those who have been hurt by "Evil Doers".

Respond by saying no to evil and yes to God and TURN IT AROUND...turn your life around, turn your thoughts around, turn your actions around, turn evil into good, turn wrong into right, turn contempt into compassion, turn fear into hope, turn disappointment into celebration...TURN IT AROUND!

"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." (‭Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭1-2‬ MSG)