“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship.” Romans 12:1 NIV
Living implies life. Life is an everyday experience. Offering ourselves to God is not something that should be contained within a sixty-minute worship session. A living sacrifice is a sacrifice that is alive and continuous in action. This means worship occurs not just in the sanctuary but in our whole world. It moves away from one activity of coming to worship to all of our activities: each relationship, each task, each opportunity, each problem, each success, each failure. True worship is our personal linking of faith and works, the offering of everyday life to God, and it isn’t something that only takes place in church. Real worship sees the whole world as the temple of the living God and every common deed as an act of worship. Real worship is the offering of everyday life to God. A person may say, “I am going to church to worship God” but he or she should also be able to say, “I am going to the office, the school, the garage, the garden, the field, to worship God.” To truly know who and how you worship, let me see you in your office, let me hear you speak in your business affairs, let me know how you treat your neighbours, let me know how you earn your money, how you save it, and how you spend it. Worship affects everything we do. Sadly, we have developed a selective kind of Christianity where we are deeply involved in worship and church activities and yet we are almost totally pagan in our daily lives. Worship is not just a church activity; it is a life activity.
PRAYER THOUGHT
Lord Jesus, let all my life activities be an act of worship to You.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Lord, we confess and repent that we have developed a selective kind of Christianity where we are deeply involved in worship and church activities and yet almost totally pagan in the daily business of our lives. Let our worship not just be a church activity, but a life activity. AMEN
I.B.R.A. Readings
John 2:1-11
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