"And so, dear brothers, I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living sacrifice, holy-the kind he can accept. When you think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask? Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how his ways will really satisfy you." (Rom 12:1-2 TLB) Christ did His part in providing salvation to all who believe and accept him. Now, the question becomes, are we willing to do our part? Are we willing to be SANCTIFIED! That is, separated from the very thing we don't want to be separated from! No one can point a finger at anyone else because all of us are caught up in something. The challenge is, do we want to remain caught up more than we want to present ourselves to God in an acceptable way? His part is done, now what about us?
PRAYER: Lord, strengthen us in our areas of weakness. Help us to yield ourselves to you as vessels of honor. Quench our desire for the undesirable and give us a deep thirst for righteousness. Amen.
Heb 12:1-2. . . . Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. KJV
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