February 8, 2009 - Romans 12

We need to offer ourselves as living sacrifices to the Lord for it is an act of spiritual worship to Him. This passage also states that conformity to the world and its desires is evil whilst renewing the mind in the presense of God is the way to go. 

None of these things are easy to do since we are living within the world physically. There is a constant battle between our minds on what is right and pleasing to God and what is not. Even though there is this constant struggle, Paul reminds us to be humble in our thought that even though we are Christians, set with the mindset of superiority because we are following Christ Jesus, we need to humble ourselves and "not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you." 

And it all comes down to pleasing God with whatever we have. Paul gives the analogy of a human body composed of many differernt, very unique working organs. We all have differernt gifts given to us by the grace of God. Whether it be serving, leading, encouraging, giving, whatever! We come together and form one body in Christ and each member belongs to all the others. Let us be a part of this unified body with Christ and glorify God with everything that we do. 

Amen.