A Living Sacrifice
Each day we walk through the Bible chapter by chapter making an application of our text to help us grow in the Lord. Many applications can be made from each day's text. Today we continue in the book of Romans with Chapter 12 and in our text we see in the remainder of the book how Paul gives us instruction on how to behave. Our personal responsibility to be a living sacrifice to God as we live in our flesh, in a world of sin, indwelt with the Holy Spirit, we are to yield our members to serve in the body of Christ. How about you? Are you Saved? If so, do you see your responsibility to our Lord to yield ourselves as a living sacrifice to God? Let us learn from our text today and the wisdom of Paul as he explains how , as Christians, we are live in this world yielded to the Spirit of God that indwells us as we present ourselves as a living sacrifice to our Lord.
casinoohne-lizenz makes a similar point about how people assess risk in the moment and ignore warnings, and that parallel struck me while reading Paul's call to yield our members rather than let habit decide for us. The distinction between being indwelt by the Spirit and actually yielding to Him is the part I keep circling back to, since it's easy to assume presence equals surrender. Presenting ourselves as a living sacrifice sounds less like a single decision and more like a daily reorientation of attention.