Do you ever come home from a great church service all fired up to live out your best life?

And then the flame dwindles. It's frustrating. So how do we close the gap between Sunday morning

convictions and Monday morning compromise?

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall finds the answer in Romans Chapter 12. The solution

isn't more enthusiasm or stronger willpower. It's a renewed mind that thinks differently about

yourself, others, and your spiritual gifts. So let's

discover how transformed thinking breaks the cycle of spiritual compromise. Chuck titled his

message, How a Renewed Mind Thinks. Have you noticed how much God loves variety?

I mean, compare the deer to the alligator.

Just for an example, compare a zina to an orchid. Compare a little yellow canary to a parrot just simple little illustrations and

god made them all it mean compare the catfish is there anything uglier under the water than a catfish

compared to a sleek marlin slipping through the water about ready to be

caught on my line. Different as they can be, but they're all part of the fish species. So it is in the body,

the diversity. God loves it that way. He made it that way. And mutuality, we care for each other.

We notice each other. We relate to each other. One of us hurts, the other one hurts too. One of us is

weeping. The other one cares. One is laughing, the other rejoices with them.

This is all part of mutuality.

So we have unity, diversity, mutuality, and it all works together.

I remember years ago playing sandlot football as a kid, and I was running out for a pass, and I turned and was

looking toward the passer, and my leg dropped into one of these holes where these big sprinklers

pop up.

You know, psh, phew, p p phew.

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