Holy?!

Now I know a lot of my stuff is “You have to do this! You have to do that!”, but in this post I want to kind of just dwell on a great truth God recently showed me. This is probably something obvious I missed, but humor me.

Been thinking a lot lately about Romans 12:1

 ¹I 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.

Especially the first part. We are to present our bodies, as a living sacrifice. This is something we do ourselves, for God. We are presenting ourselves, but aren’t we sinful? How can God use us? Well that’s what I want to focus on.

The living sacrifice is what we so often focus on. But I was thinking about the rest of it. We are so lame. So sinful and inadequate, but here it doesn’t even say we are that. It says when we present ourselves as a sacrifice to God, it is HOLY! Remember, sacrifices have to be without blemish, perfectly without flaw. But it even gets better! We are ACCEPTABLE to God!!! Acceptable! Think about how powerful this is: there has not been a person able to rightly serve God since Adam. But through this other One man (Jesus Christ), we don’t just become His servants, we are acceptable, holy sacrifices! Living, breathing ones at that. The more for God to use us!

 So how is this possible? When we are under the Blood of Jesus, His Righteousness becomes what God sees on us. When we are saved, we are no longer the sinful man that we once were. But my words don’t quite grasp it, It says it perfectly here: By the mercies of God.

Well that’s it, just wanted to jot something down real quick. I hope it’s a blessing. I hope that you will make sure that your name is covered, then present your body COMPLETELY as a sacrifice to Him, and let Him use you. God bless,

Jdd

Eph 5:16

 ¹⁶Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.