Living Sacrifice

Romans 12:1-2   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.  Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

When we come to God, make him Lord of our lives, he washes away our sins, and we are made new.  We are a new creation in Christ.  And God desires us to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice.  A sacrifice is the surrender of a possession as an offering to God.  God wishes us to surrender our bodies to him.  We are no longer our own; we are bought with a price.  And that price is the blood of Jesus.

How do we present our bodies as a living sacrifice?  We obey his commands.  We do his will.  We listen to his words.  We live the way he tells us to live.  It will not always be easy.  But it is worth it to do the will of God.