ROMANS
12:1 “Present your body as a living sacrifice”
My dear brothers and Sisters in
Christ, God is alive and he needs you to accomplish His will in this earth. We
are the disciples of the Lord. I am pleased of what Apostle Paul said, that we
have to offer ourselves as living sacrifices holy and pleasing to God, because
for us in doing so, it is our spiritual
act of worships. Jesus followers must possess an intense passion to honor Him
in every aspect of life. Out of gratitude to God for His mercy and salvation,
that means we should be completely devoted in loving Him with all we have, say
and do. We must live by God standard by loving and serving His purpose in our
lives. Our goal should be to demonstrate God holiness, which means we need to
be pure in our heart, without purity we shall never see God (Mathew 5: 8).
We require the total sacrifice of
separating ourselves from the patterns of this world so we can develop and
pursue a deeper relationship with God, we must realize that true godly worships
is not simply an activity in the church service. It involves much more than
singing even speaking words of praise
to God. Christians loving, serving and doings in the church involves a
lifestyle that bring honor to God. When
we speak of the worships, worships becomes a true sacrifices when we take it
outside of church by living in way that
truly honors, exalts and brings positive attention to God. It is not necessarily a great to voice our
worships to God in Church our people are gathered for that very purpose.
ROMANS
12:2 “Do not conform, but be transformed”
I hope what Paul implies here are
several things happening in daily life basis:
There is really very pressure to conform to the things of this world in
every aspects of our life. As Christ
followers, we must firmly resist the tendency to imitate and adopt the world’s
ungodly ways of thinking and behavior that do not glorify God. The reason we
need to resist and mind not the things of the world is, because they are full
of it evil’s influence (Acts 2: 40). In this corrupt generation; no
one can spiritually be save if he or she did not make a decision to refuse and
turn away and not to participate to the patterns of this world. New
Christian should be taught to break of sinful relationships, give up ungodly
practices that are common in the world, unite themselves to Christ and his
people and devote themselves to God’s
purpose.
Finally, let us not conform any longer
to the worldly standard, but let us change our direction and make a U –turn to
the Lord’s way.
God bless you
Abdalla Kori
(The Pastor and the Minister of Evangelical Pentecostal Church of Melton)