Roms 12: 1-2
#transforming your mind, #daily devotion #word of God #scriptures#gospel
Offer your bodies as a living
sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. Don’t
be like the people of this world, but let God change
the way you think (transform your mind).
Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to him.
Today is the
second day of the New Year and many are still on holiday as a roll over from Sunday
the 1st of January 2017. The week before had been the
holy week of Christmas which we remember as the day that God had given us the
free gift of His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins and grant us the gift of
salvation.
This is the act
of love from God and He does not want us to recompense Him in any way that
would cost us in material things but God wants us to draw close to Him in love and
the best way of doing this is to offer our lives as living sacrifices. This is
not a onetime offering but the apostle Paul tells us that we are to offer our
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God as long as we live.
This holy
living is a living sacrifice which is our true and proper worship to God. Our
worship cannot be just lip service by telling God we love and worship Him but
the next moment we live like the rest of the world in sin. We need to live
Jesus, talk Jesus, walk Jesus and do everything as Jesus would do.
How then can
we do this, Paul gives us the instruction in verse 2, we are to “be transformed
by the renewing of our mind”. This means stop thinking of the world, stop thinking like the world but from today onward
let’s keep thinking about Jesus.
This is the
best gift that we can give to God for 2017 everyday starting from today. We
must make a New Year resolution to live for Jesus and live like Jesus every day
of this year and for the rest of our lives. Jesus lived in humility; that means
we too must live with gratitude for what he had done for us, we must also live
in humility like Him and we must give ourselves completely to Him. Completely
means all our heart, mind and will must be surrendered to Jesus and allow Him
to mould, shape and fill us according to His will.
Jesus has a
plan for each and every one of us. As I
have mentioned yesterday, the work in the Kingdom is varied. There are
different calling and different gifting and ministries. God had not made us all
to be the same. That would mean an army of robots but God gave us the five-fold
ministries because there are different needs in the body of Christ. He gave us different
skills and empowering.
Paul also
told us in Roms 9: 21 God had ….of the
same lump make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour. This
means that in the household of God, some will be in the priesthood, some in
other positions of leadership and yet others will be serving in lower capacities.
No matter in which capacity we are called and chosen we must dedicate our lives
to serve Him faithfully this year and beyond. Only then would we be living
sacrifices that are holy and acceptable to God.
Irrespective
of what position and calling that God has given to us, there is no difference
in the expectation from God. Every priest, leader and follower must live humbly
and with thanks giving in their hearts. Someone said ‘thanksgiving’ means to be ‘thanks-living,’
Let us start
living each day of 2017 in ‘thanks-living’.
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