YOUR BODY
By Rick Mathes
Romans 12:1 (NASB77) 1 I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
In no creature except man is there any act which involves such an interactivity of matter and spirit, boy and soul.
We are the sacrificing priests within the Temple of our bodies. This Temple is a house possessed by the Holy Spirit and preserved by the faith and blood of believers throughout the whole world. We, men of God, must be diligent keepers of His law in our heads and His passion in our hearts. As obedient slaves we go about the Father’s business and we don’t even notice we are doing so. Being a saved believer is a serious choice that cannot be violated or broken: a covenant.
C.H. Spurgeon: I scarcely like this word “sacrifice” because it involves nothing more than a reasonable service. If we gave up all we had and became beggars for Christ, it would display no such chivalrous spirit or magnanimous conduct after all. We would be gainers by the surrender.
Faith keeps the man who keeps the faith.
Our Body of Faith has:
- Eyes to see
- Ears to hear
- Hands to grip
- Feet to walk
- Mind to think
- Heart to love
- Taste to appreciate.
The first most grievous sin is to have a god more important than God.
The second is to desecrate the Body which is the Temple of God. Immoral sex, obesity, alcoholism, drug addiction, crime, etc. is essentially spitting in the face of our crucified Savior!
How dare you shame the House of God, your body and then yet expect God’s blessing.
God is reaching out to touch you physically, mentally, educationally, vocationally, and spiritually. It’s your body to do with as you choose. It is my expectation that this devotional will motivate you to do some housekeeping and wash your soul in living water.
PRESS ON!
Rick Mathes 