Romans 12 – A Text That Preaches (Part 1)
I am really enjoying reading through the New Testament from the Phillips Translation. I highly recommend it to you.
Romans 12 is a text that preaches all by itself. I share it with you the next two days:
Romans 12 is a text that preaches all by itself. I share it with you the next two days:
With eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers, as act of intelligent worship, to give him your bodies, as a living sacrifice, consecrated to him and acceptable by him.
Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold, but let God remold your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for is good, meets all His demands and moves toward the goal of maturity.
As your spiritual teacher I give this piece of advice to each one of you:
· Don’t cherish exaggerated ideas of yourself or your importance, but try to have a sane estimate of your capabilities by the light of the faith that God has given to you all. For just as you have many members in one physical body and those members differ in their functions, so we, though many in number, compose one body in Christ and are all members of one another.
· Through the grace of God we have different gifts. If our gift is preaching, let us preach to the limit of our vision. If it is serving others let us concentrate on our service; if it is teaching let us give all we have to our teaching; and if our gift be the stimulating of the faith of others let us set ourselves to it. Let the man who is called to give, give freely; let the man who wields authority think of his responsibility; and let the man who feels sympathy for his fellows act cheerfully.
There is a lot of meat here to chew on brothers. Take some time to prayerfully look at these verses. Is God speaking to your heart today? He has to mine! – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
Dig This Quote: Sympathy is no substitute for action. David Livingstone
Determined Digging: Level 1: John 8:31-32; Isaiah 40:28-31
Determined Praying: We can never be blessed until we learn that we can bring nothing to Christ but our need. – Vance Havner
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