Saturday 16 Jun 2012

Saturday Reading: Romans 12:1-2

Key Verse: Romans 12:2
2  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.

Devotion:
Knowing what we know, that Christ laid down His life for us on the cross and that He beat death and rose from the grave for us, we must surely settle our lives toward a certain future with Christ just as He has promised for us. He has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt all that He was willing to do everything for us; should we not then be demonstrating that we trust in Him because of those promises and demonstrations?

Christ gave us His all; He was and is our single sacrifice that we need to bring us to an eternal life with Him in glory. What would you be willing to give for your life in eternity? That really should be a moot point because we don’t need to give anything as there is nothing that we can give that will ever measure up to all that Christ has done for us. It is no small request that we give our bodies as a living sacrifice because Christ has already given the ultimate sacrifice for us. There is therefore no need for us to aim at giving the ultimate sacrifice or we would be saying that Christ’s sacrifice was not good enough; but aiming at living our lives as a continual sacrifice to performing God’s will in our lives should be our aim.

In order to perform that task of living a life for God we must separate our lives from the world and all that it may offer us. God and His will must be our aim and our goal. He does not say that we are going to have an easy life when we do aim for His will to be performed so we do have to be constantly on the lookout. Every hour of every day we need to be vigilant for all that the evil one will throw at us through this world and in order to battle against that. When Jesus was tempted by him it was to God’s Word that He turned to fight off the evil one; we need to take on that mantle and use God’s Word as our ‘strengthener’ day by day as well. It is through reading God’s Word that we will renew our minds to continue that fight day by day.

As long as we are willing to aim toward God’s Will, He will be willing to continue guiding us and keeping us encouraged to fulfil the role that He has laid down before us. There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing God’s will because He is the only one who does know all that is best for us and all that we should be doing.

Points to Ponder:
Are you willing to do what is best for you?

Are you willing to do what is best by Christ?