The pressures of the world weigh down on all of us daily. There is the pressure to perform, the pressure to succeed, the pressure to look your best, the pressure to have the best of everything. Take a closer look at how these pressures present themselves in our lives. Do they come from work? From family? From the media? They all have one common theme: The pressure is exerted from the outside in.
How do you respond to external pressures? Do you give in and allow it to make you crack? Or do you remain strong?
Don't get so well-adjusted to the world that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the world around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, and develops well-formed maturity in you.
"Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."
-Romans 12:2 (NLT)
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