Saturday, September 14, 2019
This coming week's memory verse is Romans 12:1..
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. (NIV)
It is a challenging world we live in…let’s face it…it is a me-first world. People focus their entire being on how they can get the most out of THIS life, how much they can accumulate, how much “fun” they can have, how little they can give, but how much they can get. But Paul puts it pretty plainly to US in this verse. As followers of Christ, as His children, we are to offer our entire bodies - offer ourselves, our hearts, our minds, our wills, and yes our bodies - as a “living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.”
In the old testament animal sacrifices were given to cleanse a people or person from sin, and the animals went unknowingly, and I am sure sometimes unwilling. BUT NO LONGER! We sacrifice ourselves knowing exactly what we are doing and we do so willingly. When we worship we give up our entire beings. When we worship it’s an all-encompassing, all-engaging, all-consuming sacrifice to our God for what His Son did for us - for He gave us His all.
Here is message from John Piper I found when researching…I pray it edifies and blesses you.
https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/present-your-bodies-as-a-living-sacrifice-to-god
