A LIVING SACRIFICE

When we become Christians we are no longer our own, but were bought with a price (1 Cor. 6:20), and that price was the greatest that God could give, namely the blood of His own Son, Jesus Christ, Who was crucified upon the cruel cross. God wants us and loves us (John 3:16), and through His coming to dwell within us, since He is the light, we become the light of the world to glorify Him (Matt. 5:14-16).

The apostle Paul tells us “...present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is your spiritual service. And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable will of God” (Rom. 12:1-2). The apostle Peter also declares, “But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of Him that called you out of darkness into His marvelous light: who in time past were no people; but now are the people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but have now obtained mercy” (I Pet. 2:9-10). What a great wonder that God not only wants us to represent Him to the world by the word that we preach, but by the lives that we live. As we live for Him, and want to live with Him in the after awhile, we must be careful that our lives here on earth and the Word that we teach must be pure, clean and holy (Matt. 7:21-23; 2 Tim. 4:1-8).

Love you, David V. Fultz