Romans 12:1-2, Therefore I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not be conformed any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing, and perfect will.
One of the ways we obey God is to offer Him our body as a living sacrifice. I am doing a Bible Study called The Lord's Table. In yesterday's study, the reader is encouraged to daily pray scriptures offering our body to God. Our God is concerned about every aspect of our lives, including how we eat.
One of the ladies on the Thin Within Forums also suggested praying Romans 6, which is a powerful passage on not using our body to sin. By offering our bodies to the Lord on a daily basis , we will want to obey God in our eating, in sexual purity, or any other area concerning our bodies.
My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. I want to honor Him. I want to honor Him in every area of my life. He alone is worthy of pure devotion. He alone can satisfy. Food cannot satisfy. Sexual impurity cannot satisfy. Any sin cannot satisfy. Only being totally devoted to Jesus Christ can satisfy my soul, and in this, I will eat less.
I also have been reading Romans 6; God is so faithful to send what we need at the right time.
ReplyDeleteThis verse inspired the name of my blog. There's only one problem with living sacrifices...we keep trying to crawl off the altar.
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