April 20 – LD
16, Day 5: The Sacrifice of Thanksgiving
by Rev
Romans 12:1 “I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
Christ’s death was an atonement offering for our sins. Our lives
now must be lived as thank offerings to God. As new creatures made after the
likeness of Jesus, we both can and must devote our lives to His service
We must never forget the price that God paid to redeem us. The
more we meditate on His suffering and death, the more we must live in praise
and thanksgiving for His love and tender mercy. We will praise Him forever because
He did that which we could never do. We have been taken from the bondage of
eternal death.
The will of God is that we be holy, even as He is holy. May you live
today in the consciousness of that calling. We who by
nature would live for ourselves have been made free from that bondage. We will
now live for Him!
The same Holy Spirit that dwelt in Jesus without measure lives and
dwells in us. We really are made new creatures after His likeness.
There is nothing greater we can give than to live our lives for Him. It
is not enough that our sinful desires were put to death. There also is
something new that comes to life as we now live unto Him.