squeezed

Be careful how you live among your unbelieving neighbors. 1 Peter 2:12



All too often these days it's hard to tell who is a Christ follower.



Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold,

     but let God re-mold your minds from within,

     so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good,

     meets all his demands

     and moves towards the goal of true maturity. (Romans 12:2, J. B. Phillips)


I like the way J. B. Phillips translates that last passage....


"Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold..."



Anybody ever feel "squeezed"?

Yeah...

We live in a world that's dying to see people who have some sort of principle,

     people with some sort of moral center,

     people with something bigger than themselves within their psyche that defines them, inspires them, & completes them.


Let's not allow ourselves to be squeezed today - let's be who we are in Him, living a life through which we love others well.