Morning Devotional – Inspirational [ Consecration of the Believer’s Life ] Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—alive, holy, and pleasing to God—which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1 New English Translation PRESENTATION ON THE PART OF THE CHRISTIAN IS REGARDED AS SACRIFICE. As religious men, these Roman Christians must, as a matter of course, offer a sacrifice and a service of worship. And they are here told that the presentation to God of themselves is the one great act in which all specific acts of obedience are summed up and involved. Let us, like them, enter into the temple of God, and bring with you a living sacrifice; let us join in offering to Heaven a reasonable, a spiritual worship; for with such the Father will be well pleased. The offering of the Christian is further represented as A REASONABLE SERVICE OR WORSHIP. It is a service rendered by the intelligent, reasonable, spiritual part of our nature. Though the body is presented, the presentation of the body is an expression of inner, spiritual worship. For the word means worship—an outward act of religious worship. Worship is a universal expression of the religious nature of man. So there is a true sense in which, while the surrender of our will is all-important and primary from one point of view, the surrender of our body, the giving over of the body, is to be the implement of God’s Will in us, is all important, and is crucial, as our reasonable service.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:48:00 +0000
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