“… to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 2:5). ✧✧✧ Every faculty you have is to be used for God’s glory. In Romans 12:1 Paul pleads with believers to present their bodies to God as “a living and holy sacrifice,” which is an appropriate and acceptable act of worship. But as someone has rightly said, the problem with living sacrifices is that they tend to crawl off the altar. That’s because sacrificial living demands spiritual
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