What World Are You Living In?

Sometimes it takes a friend to say something to make it click.

The whole premise of the book "Rumors" (which I can now say that I am finished with after a good 4 months or so) is dealing with the "worlds" we live in. The obvious world we live in is of course Earth. This world includes society, mother nature, friends, family... this is your everyday life, what you wake up and jump into. The other world the author focuses on is our spiritual (unseen) world. This world includes you and your spiritual life. The unseen elements. The things that aren't tangible, and you need faith to know they exist. Your relationship with God is a huge part of this world as is your afterlife beliefs.

The idea that Philip Yancey promotes in his book is a need for us to mix the two worlds. We need to look for ways in which we can overlap our spiritual world into to the physical world that we experience everyday. There isn't a need to separate our spiritual life from our physical world.

Here's where the friend comes in. She was leading our weekly Bible study and was talking about incorporating God into our college decisions. Towards the end of her talk she talked about the importance of involving God into everything we do. This means asking God for guidance on even the littlest of things, praising God for the most mundane of things, and thanking God for everything. This is when I made the connection to "Rumors". Both my friend and the author are right.
We need to make God the center of everything we do. After all, He is the One who we need to aim to please. Whether we are choosing which college to attend or what to do on a Saturday night, we should ask for His guidance. The more we can incorporate God into the mundane of our life, the more the stresses of life will be relieved. We can trust that God will lead us on the right paths.

"In all your ways acknowledege Him, and He will make straight your paths."
-Proverbs 3:6