mixer.

Often we find ourselves dividing our activities into two categories: secular and sacred. We treat them as two very different things and find ourselves needing to check off the sacred in attempt to become more holy and justify the secular. We don't mix the two, and the rare time we do in the South, we call it fellowship (and that usually involves food). But I can't say with confidence that this is what God meant when he told us to live lives according to His glory. As buildings of God we are commanded to:

"build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire and the fire will test the quality of each person's work." 1 Corinthians 3:10b-13

Now, that is not to say, we must work in attempt to find this foundation, for the foundation has indeed already been laid by Jesus Christ. But what are we building with? Are we building with lasting impressions of what God has already done in our hearts or are we cheating ourselves with surface level straw?