Tag: Salvation
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Living Sacrifice Day 2 – Know Your Worth
My bank has a neat online feature that shows all my debt, all the money in savings and investments, and it spits out what’s called my net worth. For me, looking at that number keeps me pretty humble.
What’s your worth? How are you going to calculate that worth? Are you going to weigh in what you look like, your personality traits, your features, your degrees, your resume, what you own? Well, that’s how the world may determine your worth in society, but it’s certainly not how God does. In 1 Corinthians 6:20, Paul says, “You were bought at a price.”
That price was expensive. It cost Jesus to get you. One life was given for another. God gave up His best to save you from the perils of hell. Hopefully, you are not numb to those words, even though you may have heard them a thousand times. You are worth so much to God, and He proved it by what He did for you. Let’s also be sure to realize that God did not do this because we had some merit worthy of salvation. No, Romans 5:8 says, “while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
It isn’t prideful to understand your worth, because your worth doesn’t come from who you are, what you look like, or what you’ve done. Your worth is found in Christ Jesus. The day you decided to follow Christ was the day you inherited riches beyond your wildest imagination.
Today, and every morning from now on, look in the mirror and say, “I am a child of the Most High God.” By doing this you are identifying yourself as a citizen of another world and seeing the great and awesome mercy of God that He has freely given to you. Knowing whose we are is one of the first steps we can take towards being living sacrifices.
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Living Sacrifice Day 1 – Get to Know God
We are beginning a journey – a challenge to be living sacrifices. Where do we start? Well, it’s quite simple, but yet extremely profound. We begin by knowing God. In these next 40 days, we are going to be examining what it means to worship, to be a worshiper, to be a living sacrifice. We ought to begin by knowing who we worship. Paul in Romans 12:1 uses the phrase “pleasing to God.” How can we know what pleases God if we don’t know who He is? This is the first step – get to know God.
When Jesus met with the Samaritan woman at the well, he told her that her people worshiped what they didn’t know. He wasn’t commending their faith; He was criticizing their lack of knowledge of God.
Sometimes we let our preconceived notions and what we think is reasonable dictate what we know about God. Don’t be satisfied by letting me tell you about who God is. Get to know Him yourself. If you haven’t made a commitment to following Jesus, do that today! That is the first step towards being a living sacrifice.
If you’ve made that commitment, then right now spend some time praying and reading Scripture. Learn about who God is from His Word but also let the Holy Spirit speak to you. One activity I like to do is to read Scripture (even just a few verses), pray that passage by using some of the phrases I just read to glorify and exalt God. If you don’t know what passage to begin with, let me suggest to you my favorite – Ephesians 1:3-14. Then just spend time thinking about that passage, mulling it over in your heart and mind and letting the Holy Spirit speak to you about what it says.
Do this every morning for the next 40 days, and you’ll be creating a habit of a living sacrifice by getting to know the Lord.
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