When I was younger I grew up thinking that Church was something most people attended just to make themselves feel better about all the bad stuff they'd done during the week. The more I watched people's lives as I grew up, the more I thought "people don't really want to live for God, they just want to live for themselves and hope God let's them into heaven."

It wasn't until high school that I realized I didn't want to live for myself. Romans 12:1-2 hit me one day while I was reading my Bible and to this day it has been one of my favorite verses.

"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. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

At that point in my life, I realized that we are called to worship God with our lives ... every aspect of it. I also realized that I wasn't very good at it because naturally I wanted to live for myself. I've always wrestled with the idea that most people live ordinary, normal lives and don't feel like their lives are worship to God. I preach that their lives are worship, I challenge them to make every aspect worship, but that doesn't mean it always clicks. I'm reading a book called Total Church by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis and I came across a quote that I think is perfect for those of us striving to live a life of worship to God.

"Most gospel ministry involves ordinary people doing ordinary things with gospel intentionality."
 
My prayer is that we all realize we are all ordinary people out there doing ordinary things, but that we can do those things with intention. That intention is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Living your life for Him is so much better than living your life for yourself. It's not about you, it's about Him. When you strive to live that way there's no way you're going back.