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OUR REASONABLE SERVICE (II)
LORD’S DAY, SEPTEMBER 3
Romans 12:1-2
2 Corinthians 10:13-18
“But he that glorieth,
let him glory in the Lord.”
OUR REASONABLE SERVICE (II)
God expects us to willingly offer our bodies to Him a living and holy sacrifice.
(a) A Holy Sacrifice Acceptable unto God: This means all the members of our bodies must be separated from sin and worldliness, dedicated and reserved for God and His service. May God use our eyes to see opportunities to glorify and serve Him, to read and study His Word to minister to our souls and others’. May we dedicate our ears for God’s use and glory, listening to the sound preaching of God’s Word for the nourishment of our souls, to traditional hymns and music for our comfort, to the needs of others to minister to them. May we dedicate our tongues to the Lord as an instrument for His truth, His Word and His glory, to sing praise to Him, to pray to Him for His kingdom, for ourselves and others, to share His Word with others, to say the words of comfort, encouragement and edification or godly warning and admonition to others. Then our hands and feet are also to be dedicated to the Lord to write, work, or walk according to His will and all for His glory to serve Him and minister to others, etc. Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, so we have to keep it pure from sexual immorality and from anything harmful to it like drugs, tobacco, alcohol, etc.
(b) The Good, Acceptable, and Perfect Will of God: Those who love the world and want to compromise will ignore the doctrine of Biblical separation, but true followers of Christ will see it good and acceptable, and the more closely they walk with God, the more they see it perfect. Therefore, to see the good, acceptable and perfect will of God, we are to keep these two commandments: “be not conformed to this world”, and “be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind” by the Holy Spirit and God’s Word.
THOUGHT: It is God’s good and perfect will that we are holy as He is holy.
PRAYER: Father, I thank Thee for Thy good, acceptable and perfect will for me.