A living sacrifice

Over the past 6 weeks we’ve been exploring the call to come and follow Christ. We’ve asked the question what does it mean to be followers of the way. We’ve talked about the initial invitation to those disciples to come and follow Jesus, about the redemption that is found in Christ and how through him we’re reconciled to the Father, about the transformation that happens in a meaningful relationship with Jesus, the response to accepting the invitation (baptism and going and preaching to others) and last week we heard about how that has a been worked out in Paora and Simons lives. 

This week we’re going to finish with the call Paul places on our lives to run the race and run it well. Many people assume that becoming a Christian is the act of accepting the gracious love of Christ in our lives. And although that is definitely true and absolute. There is also this call to live that out daily. That when we’re transformed by Christ, we choose again and again to follow him and do his will in our lives, and also in the wider world. And when we do that we glorify him even more. 

So the invitation to each of us is to run the race with vigilance. To not rest on our laurels, but that our whole lives would be a living sacrifice just as Christ laid his life down for us all. That our work, our volunteering, our parenting, our study. That it would all be to glorify God. Of course there will be times where we don’t. That's very natural. But the heart is that we run the race well, and glorify God in all we do. 

God Bless,

Sage