Take Your Everyday, Ordinary Life – Your Sleeping, Eating, Going-To-Work, And Walking-Around Life— And Place It Before God As An Offering.

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Proverbs 16; Proverbs 17; Proverbs 18; Romans 12

Take Your Everyday, Ordinary Life –

Your Sleeping, Eating, Going-To-Work, And Walking-Around Life—

And Place It Before God As An Offering. 

Scripture

Romans 12


¹ So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. (MESSAGE)

12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. (NIV)

Observation

I love both of these translations of Romans 12:1! We are to present our bodies as living sacrifices: your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life – and place it before the Lord as a living sacrifice, as an offering! That is what we are called to do today! Lets do it!

A living sacrifice can crawl off of the altar, which means that you and I must constantly, moment-by-moment live our lives for God. The best way to do that is to start the day out in God’s Word and start the day out in prayer.

Our lives are ordinary, but God wants to take our ordinary lives and make them extraordinary! He can only do that if we place our lives before Him as an offering!

 Application

 I offer my body as a living sacrifice to God today. How about you?

Prayer

Heavenly Father, I take my everyday, ordinary life—my sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and I place it before You today as an offering. Don’t let me get off track. I pray that You guide me so I bring You honor and glory by the way I live out TODAY! 

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