A Living Sacrifice

“I 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. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:1-2

We lift our voices, We lift our hands,
We lift our lives up to you,
We are an offering.

Lord, use our voices, Lord use our hands,
Lord use our lives, they are Yours,
We are an offering. —Dwight Liles

"During the Civil War, George Wyatt was drawn by lot to go the front, he had a wife and six children. A young man named Richard Pratt offered to go in his stead. He was accepted, and joined the ranks, bearing the name and number of George Wyatt. Before long, Pratt was killed in action. The authorities later sought again to draft George Wyatt into service. He protested, entering the plea that he had died in the person of Pratt. He insisted the the authorities consult their own records as to the fact of his having died in identification with Pratt, his substitute. Wyatt was thereby exempted as beyond the claims of the law and further service. He had died in the person of his representative." –From 'Embraced by the Cross'

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” –Galatians 2:20

Dear Christian, are you still living to sin? remember that "Christ's death for sin, is automatically your death to sin. God's way of victory and deliverance is to cut us right off from the Adamic tree, and to graft us into Christ, joining us to Him in death. Apart, then, from any choice of my own, as a believer 'I am crucified with Christ.' My being a Christian makes inevitable a crucified life." –L.E. Maxwell

"Dead to the world would I be, O Father!
Dead unto sin, alive unto Thee;
Crucify all the earthly within me,
Emptied of sin and self may I be." –Elisha Hoffman

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This is my heart's cry... That I could be totally dead to this flesh, and the world, and that I could "...press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:14

Keep on fighting, fellow soldiers!!!!!