Present Your Body As A Living Sacrifice

Here is a heavy thought for you today. God demands everything from you as His child. He does not ask for 10% nor 90%. He commands everything, 100%. He calls you to be a sacrifice, a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1). The implications of God's call for you to be a "living sacrifice" impacts every area of your life. You cannot hold back 1% of your life from God's reign and kingship and still be a living sacrifice. This kind of thinking in our western Christianity is more and more foreign. We tend to think that Christianity is just a system of beliefs or a way of living. Instead, God calls us to much more as Christians. He calls us to a life that is a continual living sacrifice. That is heavy.

As one who has received God's endless mercies in the Gospel, you are also to present a sacrifice to God daily. The sacrifice is yourself. You are to "present" your own body as a living sacrifice on the altar of God. No turning back. You are to “present” yourself as a living sacrifice to God just like the Old Testament priests presented the animal for the sacrifice. However, as a "living" sacrifice, you are to "present" yourself up to God joyfully, wholeheartedly, enthusiastically, eagerly with devotion to Him as your worship for God and His eternal mercies (Rom. 12:1; 15:9). You are not merely to present your mind or spirit or heart but your body as well. God wants your physical body to be a living sacrifice to Him because that is the way in which your soul expresses itself.