How are Christians to interact with the culture they live in? If you’ve attended church for any length of time, you’ve likely heard that we are to “be in the world, not of it.” But what exactly does this mean? What does “being in the world but not of the world” look like? Well, Jesus makes it clear in His famous Sermon on the Mount.
I hate Mondays.
I know it’s such a cliché thing to say, but it’s true. I really do not like Mondays. It never fails that I have a hard time falling asleep on Sunday nights. When my alarm goes off on Monday morning, I wake up tired. I’m unproductive at work. I can’t focus on school. And I go to bed at the end of the day feeling like it wasn’t a very good day.
Can you relate? Maybe it’s Mondays for you, or maybe it’s a different day, or maybe it’s even every day. You wake up tired and unmotivated, and all you want to do is go back to sleep or watch Netflix all day.
For me, I think I dislike Mondays so much because I don’t want to go back to my working routine. On Saturdays and Sundays, I get to sleep in, and be lazy, and do whatever I feel like doing. But Monday morning starts a new week of waking up early, and work issues, and stressful school assignments. I don’t want to go back to work because work is hard. I would rather just scroll through social media, watch movies, or read books.
Work often feels bad, but this is not how the Bible characterizes it.
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I am a murderer… and so are you.
You’re probably thinking – What??? No, I’m not! I’ve never killed anyone. I’m not a murderer!
Good! I’m glad you’ve never killed anyone. But you’re still a murderer. Confused? Let’s go back to the beginning.
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