Living Sacrifices

eDevotion

Encouragement for your daily walk with God 

God took great pains to describe the kind of sacrifices He deemed worthy. He gave detailed instructions on what to sacrifice and how to sacrifice it. And when the Children of Israel offered those sacrifices in the prescribed way, God said they were a soothing aroma to Him (Leviticus 1:13, 17). 

They were called a sacrifice partly because once the animal was offered to God, it belonged to Him entirely; it was no longer their possession. Furthermore, God only accepted the best animals for a sacrifice. It was an offense to bring substandard animals to Him—damaged or imperfect in any way. That was God’s way, and the kind of sacrifice He offered in His Son:

Rather, the payment that freed you was the precious blood of Christ, the lamb with no defects or imperfections (1st Peter 1:19 God's Word Translation). 

Christ followers are called to be sacrifices—living sacrifices! And just like the Old Testament ones, we belong entirely to Him. Therefore, be relentless in your pursuit of  holiness so that your offering to God is unblemished and acceptable to Him.

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. (Romans 12:1)