Date: Wednesday, 22nd January, 2025
Text: Romans 12:1-2
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Sacrifice is not only in financial or material terms. We are to offer our physical bodies as a sacrifice- which means we are to dedicate all of yourselves or set ourselves apart as vessels for the use of God. We are to set ourselves apart from the superficial values, life patterns and evil customs of the world.
By the help of the Holy Spirit we are to be transformed and progressively changed by the renewing of our minds, focusing on godly values and ethical values, so that we can actualize and fulfil God’s perfect will for our lives.
We are to reject ungodliness and immoral desires, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives with a purpose that reflect spiritual maturity in this corrupt world, while we await and confidently expect the fulfilment of our blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus-Titus 2:12-13 (AMP)
See any time spent in God’s service and work as a spiritual investment and not a waste of time. Such investments will yield spiritual interests and dividends into your future. The one who invests to his sinful nature- his sinful passion and capacity, his worldliness, his disgraceful impulses- will reap from the sinful nature, ruin and destruction, but the one who invests into his spiritual life will from the Spirit reap eternal life- Galatians 6:8.
This year create time and be available for the things that will advance God’s kingdom on Earth. Spend and be spent for God. Such sacrifices are acceptable as our act of worship.
Reflective Nugget: Your reward in God’s kingdom is directly related to your level of sacrifices on Earth.
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