Are you a living sacrifice?
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
Rom 12:2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.
A living sacrifice.
Spiritual service.
Not fashioned according to this world.
Transformed by the renewing of our minds.
The grace that is given to us.
Do not think of ourselves more highly than we ought.
Think soberly.
God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.
A sacrifice is what?
Dictionary-
1: an act of offering to a deity something precious; especially: the killing of a victim on an altar
2: something offered in sacrifice
3 a : destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else
b : something given up or lost
4: loss
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A living sacrifice, a living offering to God. A giving up of ourselves so that God may work in us. A setting aside of ourselves.
We are given a measure of faith, we are given GRACE, and through this we CAN offer ourselves a LIVING SACRIFICE.
Why don't we believe we have to sacrifice anything in our lives? Why do we insist on being the most important thing in our own lives? Sacrifice ourselves? We can barely sacrifice anything, and most assuredly very little that is truly important to us. We tell ourselves that God understands, but what we are really saying is we don't want to give up very much of anything. We pat ourselves on the back while shouting into our conscience that others have so much more than we do. All the while we choose purposely to forget how many truly have so much less than we do. We shove that thought to the back of our mind preferring to indulge the other thought about others who have so much more.
Sacrifice.
It is so much easier to sacrifice anything other than ourselves. How many prefer to sacrifice animals, and others but not self.
Please LORD, please help us to truly be a LIVING SACRIFICE for you, by YOUR GRACE!
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
Rom 12:2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.
A living sacrifice.
Spiritual service.
Not fashioned according to this world.
Transformed by the renewing of our minds.
The grace that is given to us.
Do not think of ourselves more highly than we ought.
Think soberly.
God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.
A sacrifice is what?
Dictionary-
1: an act of offering to a deity something precious; especially: the killing of a victim on an altar
2: something offered in sacrifice
3 a : destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else
b : something given up or lost
4: loss
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A living sacrifice, a living offering to God. A giving up of ourselves so that God may work in us. A setting aside of ourselves.
We are given a measure of faith, we are given GRACE, and through this we CAN offer ourselves a LIVING SACRIFICE.
Why don't we believe we have to sacrifice anything in our lives? Why do we insist on being the most important thing in our own lives? Sacrifice ourselves? We can barely sacrifice anything, and most assuredly very little that is truly important to us. We tell ourselves that God understands, but what we are really saying is we don't want to give up very much of anything. We pat ourselves on the back while shouting into our conscience that others have so much more than we do. All the while we choose purposely to forget how many truly have so much less than we do. We shove that thought to the back of our mind preferring to indulge the other thought about others who have so much more.
Sacrifice.
It is so much easier to sacrifice anything other than ourselves. How many prefer to sacrifice animals, and others but not self.
Please LORD, please help us to truly be a LIVING SACRIFICE for you, by YOUR GRACE!
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