“I urge you, 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.” - Romans 12:1 (NASB)
The Apostle Paul is urgently telling all who believe in Jesus that God desires us to be a whole sacrifice. Not just part of ourselves. But our whole being, holding nothing back. This presentation is to be a living sacrifice. It is to be a holy sacrifice. It is to be acceptable to God. And it will be all that because God is merciful to us. We really have nothing God needs to accomplish his will. His desire as revealed in our verse is for us to know that His abundant mercies are for us, and are only available through our service to God. As the One who has given us new life He requires us to do this. Before our salvation we were dead and could not offer our bodies as living or holy and nothing we did would be acceptable to God. As regenerated and made new creatures spiritually, we belong to him. This is our spiritual service and it is a spiritual worship when we obediently present ourselves in this way. It brings glory to God for it is He who has shown us mercy and given us the life we have in Christ Jesus.
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