Today it dawned on me what it meant to “present yourself a living sacrifice” –it means to present your will to God. To let your life be such that God lives through you. Your life is sacrificed for His.
I was walking past the food display today. God told me not to get rice but I did – I was hungry. I sat down to eat and remembered that I had just prayed to hear God’s voice clearly. Well, I had heard, and even though he knew why I shouldn’t have eaten the rice, I chose to ignore him.
Being a living sacrifice means I don’t always understand but I’m obedient- in all things.
Today, a prostrated person came to mind – Jesus, who took our pains and bore our diseases; who hung on the cross for us. He was a living sacrifice. He hung there on the cross for us even though we didn’t…couldn’t deserve it. He came so we could have life, and have it more abundantly (John 10:10).
Today, it dawned on me that a living sacrifice should be a prostrated person. One who offers himself up for others and lays himself down for others – Jesus.
Today it dawned on me that that was who I was called to be – a sacrifice, offered up to God, clean and holy. It means that I can’t run my life going: “What should I do in the next four years?” Instead, it should be “What is God thinking about for the next four years?”
The answer you’ll get will excite you! He has big plans for you –big plans - but you’ll have to ask him. They are amazing plans but they involve you being a living sacrifice - allowing him live through you and consequently, you through him.
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him (Romans 12: 1, The MSG)
