“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”   Rom. 12:1

    Paul lived a separated life unto the Lord. There are many things in this life that you can only learn as you become ‘separated’ unto Him. We are in the world but we are not of this world. Our citizenship, the Bible states, is not here but in heaven. Because of his abandonment to the Lord Paul found one of the great secrets of life. That is, the great blessings in life come from giving ourselves totally to the Lord. Of course when we’re on the outside looking in it doesn’t make any sense at all. It is only when we engage in relationship with the Father that it begins to get clear and the rewards of true contentment become evident to us.

    In the verse above, Paul is encouraging the believers in Rome to present their bodies a living sacrifice to the Lord. Biblically speaking, a sacrifice is something given to God as an act of worship. Many things were brought to the Most High God under the Old Covenant in the act of worship such as sheep, bulls, goats and offerings from the ‘fruit of the ground’...

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