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I beseech you......by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service - Romans 12:1
Do you know enough about the mercies of God to be ready to respond to the Apostles appeal here?
Is your heart overwhelmed by a sense of thankfulness, of profound gratitude for all that God has done for you?
Are you rejoicing in a full justification from your sins through the blood of His cross?
Have you heard the clarion call of God to holy living, and recognise and believe that he has made this possible for you through your union with Christ, and through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit?
Has your heart been thrilled into this response towards Him, which already is the beginning of your consecration? Consecration which is not so much your duty - although it is your duty - as your high privilege.
Have you come to see that God is sovereign in the dispensation of His amazing grace, and that just because you have been called by His Holy Spirit into Christ, you are predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son; and that it is for the will of God and for the glory of God that you have been saved?
That of course, is why you cannot know satisfaction, and cannot know the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ until your life lies wholly submissive to His almighty will.
These are the themes which are comprised in Paul's great phrase "the mercies of God", and if you are rejoicing in them, then you will rejoice in what the Apostle has yet to say.
Christian consecration is your personal response to the heavenly vision of Jesus Christ and of His unsearchable grace.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
Do you know enough about the mercies of God to be ready to respond to the Apostles appeal here?
Is your heart overwhelmed by a sense of thankfulness, of profound gratitude for all that God has done for you?
Are you rejoicing in a full justification from your sins through the blood of His cross?
Have you heard the clarion call of God to holy living, and recognise and believe that he has made this possible for you through your union with Christ, and through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit?
Has your heart been thrilled into this response towards Him, which already is the beginning of your consecration? Consecration which is not so much your duty - although it is your duty - as your high privilege.
Have you come to see that God is sovereign in the dispensation of His amazing grace, and that just because you have been called by His Holy Spirit into Christ, you are predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son; and that it is for the will of God and for the glory of God that you have been saved?
That of course, is why you cannot know satisfaction, and cannot know the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ until your life lies wholly submissive to His almighty will.
These are the themes which are comprised in Paul's great phrase "the mercies of God", and if you are rejoicing in them, then you will rejoice in what the Apostle has yet to say.
Christian consecration is your personal response to the heavenly vision of Jesus Christ and of His unsearchable grace.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
