March 3, 2010

• Identity #29 – I am a Living Sacrifice (Romans 12:1)

  As with every identity we have in Christ, this one is a choice.  We can choose to be a light in the world.  We can choose to walk in freedom.  We can choose to walk in friendship with God.  There is a reason why we need to claim these identities, speak them out over our lives, and walk in them. 

  The body that we are born into is a body that carries the consequences of sin.  Since Adam and Eve, all of man have beared these consequences… sickness, sin, aging, and death.  Our body, if it had its way, would only look out for itself.  Like any animal, we would live only for our survival and for our pleasure.  But in God we are a new creation (identity #1).  And in order for us to overcome the desires of our body, or of our flesh, we have to be filled with God’s power and His grace.  And in order to receive this power and this grace, we need to offer ourselves over to Him. 

  When a sacrifice is set on the altar, flames are then set underneath it.  All the fat and all the toxins are burned away.  A pleasing aroma comes forth.  For us, its as we set ourselves before God and lay down our desires, our will, and our bodies, that His fire comes down on us and begins to purge us of all that is not of Him.  Some people fear this process because they want to hold onto parts of themselves.  What we have to understand though is that God created us and knows us through and through.  His fire comes only to purge the things that the enemy and this world has put in us.  As His fire burns and as we walk as living sacrifices, we are then able to be who He truly created us to be. 

  God bless!

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