----A LIVING SACRIFICE ~~

--"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service. \"---[Romans 12:1] --

-{Read Romans 6]

--If we were to do every day what today's key verse says, next year at this same time we would be different people. Only God knows what He can do with a person who sincerely presents himself daily as a living sacrifice. This should not be rushed but prayerfully pondered before the Lord. "God Himself is present/ / Let us now adore him / and with awe appear before Him." We need to experience Roans 6:11, reckoning, ourselves "dead indeed to sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord."

If we are in the likeness of His death, we can also be in the likeness of HIs resurrection--actually rising to walk in newness of life! As the magnitude of this settles over our hearts, we will cry for grace to be holy each day, yielding ourselves to God as those who are truly raised from the dead.

The sacrifice must be acceptable unto God, with the attitude that not our will but God's will be done. This requires a mind renewed by the washing of the Word, energized by the power of Jesus' blood, and transformed from worldly ambitions. Only then can we prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

Since we are recipients of grace, this is only reasonable service. Fathers, husbands, let's look for ways to be a living sacrifice. Mothers, wives, do the same, Children, young people, as you go today, how can you be a living sacrifice? Our Lord Jesus paid our sin-debt by dying on the cross. What can we do to help further His kingdom?

"Lord, enable us to walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called, in the Name of Jesus."
--BSW/KN~