This Counts

Every choice you make forms or deforms you

“Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state of the other.” - CS Lewis

Explain that

Lewis didnt get that out of nowhere… He got that from observing people and from the living word of God

Colossians 3:23-24 “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.”

1 corinthians 10:31 “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

Romans 12:11 “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.” There is no right time to get right

You’re not going to arrive at some point in which doing right is easier.

People can be tall adolescents

People can change… but it takes effort and it takes courage, and for lasting change it takes the Holy Spirit changing your heart

That means as you are presented with opportunities to do what is right, what is good, opportunities to deny yourself and reflect Jesus… take them. As you do, The Lord is going to grow you and empower you to be different. To be new!

This Counts

Whatever it is your doing, it matters to God. It matters to others.