Memes everywhere this morning featuring oversized cups of coffee. Daylight Savings Time definitely drags me down, and I am enjoying my coffee with this morning’s slow start. I’m just not sleepy at my new bed time! And I’m certainly not ready to start my day at the earlier hour.

But over the next week my body will adjust to the change around me with the spring forwarding of the clock. It’s a gradual acclimation that results in a new normal so that I do not even recognize the shift.

Our lives can also become so conformed to the world that we are unaware of our shift into a new way of living. There are many verses that speak to this, but today’s scripture is 1 Corinthians 10:31.

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

Paul has just addressed issues in his world of Christians and pagans. We are not to be stumbling blocks in the pathway of others’ journey to salvation. We are to hold up everything in our lives to the standard of God’s glory. This verse does not mean that we praise God while doing whatever we live how we want. It means that we seek to bring him glory and let our activities flow from that steam of obedience and love.

Today’s planner is open, and I’m filling up my “get-to” list. Taxes. Paperwork. Laundry. Cleaning. Dinner. Time with God. After Prom work. How do I do these for God’s glory? No grumbling. With gratitude. With excellence. With gratitude. With kindness. With honesty. With an eye open for helping others, sharing the gospel with words, and living it through my deeds.

It is definitely an intentional shift away from the world’s standards to God’s expectations of bringing  him glory throughout my day. It would be easy to let my day drift into an unholy mess of drudgery and joylessness which certainly do not bring glory to God. My day is not to be filled with selfish ambition or sinful desires. It is to be filled with a holy ambition to be salt and light in the world.

Whatever we do.  The Lord gives us so much freedom within the confines of his loving standards. He is so good! May our hearts rejoice in a God-glorifying day, even if it takes a second cup of coffee this morning.