“PRESENT YOUR BODIES!”

 Romans 12:1-2                    (ESV)

A Living SACRIFICE 

“[1] I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of GOD ”PRESENT YOUR BODIES” as a LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY and ACCEPTABLE to GOD, which is your spiritual worship. [2] DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO “this world”, but be TRANSFORMED by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD, what is GOOD and ACCEPTABLE and PERFECT.”

VERY DIRECTLY this morning……

Humanity doesn’t YEILD to that which is comes to us from the UNKNOWN very quickly as we want to assure ourselves that we are NOT subjecting ourselves to something that will be detrimental to us.   But before I was placed into the coma following the Brain Hemorrhage over EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO my opinion was NOT considered!  My recollection of the events was seeing two friends in the Emergency Room on Monday morning (July 09) and then waking up on July 30, one day after I was brought out of the drug-induced coma!!  My “opinion” wasn’t considered to my knowledge??

I wasn’t “fit” to make decisions about my own life at the time!  But are we EVER “fit” when making decisions about life and death??  Would my “input” have been beneficial to the people who were making decisions about my health in those days?  

GOD HAD A PLAN, as HE always has and does!  When each of us are in a position to do something that is a part of GODS PLAN, HE SUPERNATURALLY orchestrates the response from HIS CHOSEN!  The Apostle Paul (Saul) was on the way to persecute members of “The Way”, but JESUS intervened and his life was TRANSFORMED by meeting JESUS!!  The exact author of the book of Romans had an encounter that changed his life, and accordingly was FOR THE GLORY OF JESUS!!!

The future is NOT something that most people have the ability to discern!  Most people are moving WAY TOO FAST to calculate their own outcomes?  When the Apostle Paul wrote in the letter to the church in Rome “PRESENT YOUR BODIES”, he probably had NO IDEA how many people would be reading these words? The LORD told the Apostle Paul, “MY power is made PERFECT in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9), and it’s true of us, as well.  We need to “PRESENT YOUR BODIES” to HIM and allow HIS WORK to be completed!!!