The Grace of Smelling Salts

Scripture: Revelation 3:1-6

“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.”

Eugene Peterson, The Message paraphrase of Romans 12:1-2a

“Come broken and weary, come battered and bruised.
My Jesus makes all things new, all things new.
Come lost and abandoned, come blown by the wind.
He’ll bring you back home again, home again.

Rise up, oh you sleeper, awake,
The light of the dawn is upon you.
Rise up, oh you sleeper, awake,
He makes all things new, all things new.”

Andrew Peterson, “All Things New”