Bible Study with Danelle

As we come into the final few chapters of Romans, 12 if probably my favorite. I look at it as a guidebook from God through Paul as to how we as Christians are to live our daily lives.

Paul begins this chapter with a plea to present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God. Have you ever viewed your body that way? I know that is not how I have viewed it in the past. Some of you may or may not know that since 2018 I have been on a health and wellness journey. It has had its ups and downs. Lately, I have been trying to climb my way back out of a deep whole that left me gaining much of the weight back. When I read this verse today, it put my journey in a new perspective. Am I presenting my body as a living sacrifice to God? Am I honoring Him with how I am treating my body? I may do another post on this on a later date (or maybe over on my transformingd blog as I have not written over there in a while), but I think this is something I will go deeper into as I continue to fight for my health.

Paul continues telling us in verse 2 to not be conformed to this world. But Why? Well, for one the world is satan’s domain. The ways of the world are not God’s ways. The way of the world are full of power, greed, envy, hate, lust, impurity and other things that are not of God. It is important for us Christians to be able to discern what is of God and what is of the world. It means we have to read the Word and know and understand God’s will in order to live for God. A quote from my FireBible study notes said “Our lives should reflect a positive difference that those in the world cannot help but notice.” Everyday we have to strive to do better.

I can tell you that the last two years, I have been frustrated and at times angry with what I see happening in the world. And to be honest, I posted a lot about those frustrations. It took a while with God to realize that it was not helping anyone. It was only making me frustrated and the people with their eyes closed were not going to open them because of my post. (While I prayed my words/posts would open eyes, I could not open them, only God can).

So, I decided to take a different approach and talk of God instead of man. There are times I want to post something, but now I take a step back and think…what would God want me to say. (It does not always stop me, but I am working on it.)

I am going to be breaking this chapter down into smaller parts as there is SO MUCH to learn from this chapter. Tune in tomorrow when we talk about Gifts of Grace.

My prayer for you today is that God will speak to you about how you can be a living sacrifice for him.