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)
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Walter Bright 
Amen!
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Romans 12:2 is my favourite verse. The Message is a paraphrase, and very good in parts. The JB Phillips paraphrase renders it “Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould” – I like that one!
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Love that too…
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Wise counsel. “…fit into it without even thinking…,” nicely stated!
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Isn’t that exactly what we do? “without even thinking.” some times when I read bible using this translation – it makes so much sense!
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