If there’s anything that characterizes heaven, it is worship. The word “worship” is derived from the older word “worthship,” and means to ascribe worth to God, to consider Him as worthy of value, the ultimate value of our lives, and in some way to express to Him our sense of His worth and value to us.
Reasonable service.” This word “service” could just as well be translated “worship.” “Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you” (1 Cor. 6:19). It’s only reasonable that we would serve the God who has provided the greatest service of all: salvation from sin and self and eternal life with Him in heaven.
That is just the beginning of the changes. Today we worship God, not by going to a building (after all, we are God’s building), making use of certain furniture, and the appropriate personnel, and observing a certain ritual; our worship is to present our bodies a living sacrifice.
To present anything as a “sacrifice” means that we put it on the altar and leave it there (of course, the trouble with a living sacrifice is that the victim keeps trying to crawl off the altar. It requires constant vigilance). Present our own bodies, yet, in spite of the cost involved, this sacrifice our “reasonable” service. It’s reasonable, not exorbitant (Going beyond what is reasonable or customary), or excessive.
“You are not your own…for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Cor. 6:19-20).
To present ourselves to God is only to yield to Him what is His already. When the Lord Jesus Christ died on the Cross for our sins, not only did He pay for our sins, but He paid for us. He “redeemed us from every lawless deed,” but He also “purified for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works” (Titus 2:14). From the moment that we were saved, we have belonged to the Lord, forever.
True Believers make the will of God, not their own lust or desires, the rule of their lives and actions. And true conversion makes a marvellous change in the heart and life. It alters the mind, judgment, affections, and conversation. When a man is truly converted, it is very grievous to him to think how the time past of his life has been spent.
So, our lives are not our own. Working out our "Own" salvation, is not to be mistaken selfishly. The transforming power of Jesus Christ is on display in the lives of those who have traded selfishness for selflessness.
“And He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again” (2 Cor. 5:15).
Repent (Change Our Attitudes Towards The Life of Jesus) For the Kingdom of God Is Hand. HalleluYah!!!!
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