May 5th, 2025: Romans 12.1

Romans 12.1

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

What is a sacrifice? Doesn’t the very nature of a sacrifice mean that we are giving something that we want up? Let’s take this now to our lives as an entirety. We are being beseeched by Paul to have our bodies be a sacrifice. He specifies what that means in that it is living and following all that God has prescribed. That is how we are to be pleasing in worship for our God. So if our life is to be a sacrifice, is it no wonder that we will have feelings of weariness or displeasure? Times when inside ourselves the voice is saying, “Take a break. Think of all you’ve done. It’s unreasonable to do this 24/7. Feed a little into your vices, you’ve done plenty.” Yet that is not what we are told to do. This isn’t an 80 or 90 or even a 99 percent job. This is living our lives 100 percent of the time in sacrifice to God. In showing Him that we love Him more than ourselves all the time. This isn’t speaking towards the pleasures God has given us. This is speaking to that natural man that fights against God and wants to self-deify. That part of us we have to keep sacrificing for our God!