Right-Side-Up and Inside-Out

     As Jesus transforms our lives, we begin to realize we have been living as if we were standing on our heads, trying to figure things out from the wrong vantage point. Money hasn’t brought satisfaction. The burst of happiness at the beginning of vacation falls short. Our bodies and our outward appearance fades, even after years of tiresome treatments.

     Jesus stands us upright, leading us into His ways, turning us upside down from our lopsided world and turning us inside out! This earthly life is temporal. Our physical bodies are temporal. Why don’t we spend more time on our spirits, the part of us that lives forever??

     A good question. Moving into a relationship with Jesus should give us a deep hunger and a burning thirst for more and more of Him. I pray that your first and foremost passion is Him. Talk to Him all day long. Seek to see the world as He sees it, with love and hope for new life, right-side-up and inside out. The world won’t understand. They are trying to figure things out, just as we were, from an earthly position, a completely different view, the blood rushing to their heads. But I’m ready to follow Christ, are you?

If we are, “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God. If we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, for we are convinced that One died for all, and therefore, all died.  And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on, we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old is gone. The new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:13-17

Lord,

Keep us “out of our minds” for You. We are new creations. You turned the world upside down and inside out with Your love. We follow You and see the world through Your eyes.

Amen