It's that living sacrifice part that's the kicker. Something that's living is growing, changing, experiencing new things, waking up each day to something new.
Every day we wake up we have to choose to live holy. There is always some new adversity, some new attitude, some new heartache just waiting to knock us off our holiness lifestyle. If we're really honest, there's some old stuff that we come across every day that challenges us as well.
Living a holy life takes work. Pleasing God in all we do is a sacrifice. Our natures want to act nasty, we want to respond in anger, we want to be selfish...
But a life that's been transformed can't live that way. A life that's been renewed by Jesus' love can't live in anger. A life that's been given so much, can't bear being selfish.
We've been blessed to be made righteous and holy in the eyes of God. It's only reasonable that we sacrifice our wants and desires to match the wants and desires of the Lord. Our outer actions should match the inner change that salvation has brought to us.
Are you living holy? Are you reasonably living out your life according to God's mercies toward you? Or, do you need to make some adjustments to your behavior?
Every day we awaken, we have the choice to live holy. Each moment we live is a chance to offer ourselves as willing vessels to our King. Let's make sure that we are not misusing God's mercy towards us. Let's choose to take on God's will of holiness for ourselves today.
Verse of the Day: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1
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