Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1When I worked full-time, each year I was called in by my supervisor for an annual performance review. I had an overall job description and working from that description a list of performance objectives had been generated. Each year I would be graded as to how well I had performed each task. This served as a review or a reminder of what was expected of me daily.
Romans 12 is one of those, “In case you’ve forgotten how you are supposed to act, here’s a reminder” chapters of the Bible. If you ever feel confused or perhaps in denial about what you should be doing in terms of your daily Christian walk, read Romans 12.
It begins by telling us that in view of God’s mercy, we are to offer our complete selves to Him in worship. As a child of God we are to be nonconformists in regard to the world; we may live in the world for a short time but we are to walk in the way of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We are to be humble; to have fellowship with other members of the Body; to use our spiritual gifts; to love all sincerely; to live in harmony with everyone without partiality; to live peaceably and we are not to avenge ourselves—God will take care of that.
I challenge you to read Romans 12 today. Evaluate yourself using the performance standards listed. I don’t know about you, but there are some areas on which I need to focus.
God Bless!
