A Living Sacrifice

Paul charged us in Romans 12 to present our bodies as living sacrifices and in so doing we would be fulfilling spiritual worship. The living sacrifice is intriguing. It is that which is still alive, still dear to us, still gripped by fond affection. It is Abraham’s Isaac, still the love of his heart and the apple of his eye. To his servant he announced, “You stay here. I and the lad will go yonder to worship and return again to you.” All the while he knew that his greatest act of worship and the only act deemed worthy of his God was the laying down of Isaac on the altar as a living sacrifice and as a response of the highest form of worship.

What are our living sacrifices? We want powerful worship in our corporate gatherings and we want God’s manifest presence to grace our meeting places but we are unwilling to give up that which holds our hearts. We are afraid to make living sacrifices.

When we do however, God will bless us as he did Abraham and perhaps beyond our fondest imagination. May we climb the mount and present to Him our living sacrifices and thus honor him with worship of the highest order.