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DAY 2: What does being Living Sacrifices mean for us? - by Barbara San Jorge Ruiz

Have you ever watched a game of poker? There’s one sentence that can be said within a game that changes everything… “I AM ALL IN.”

What if there is more in common with watching a game of poker as there is with this passage in Romans than we realise?

The writer is urging us to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God. By definition, a sacrifice is costly; it requires you to give up something valuable. Therefore, to offer yourself as a living sacrifice should be costly. It requires your whole self — not only the easier areas to surrender to God, but also the areas that feel risky and scary to do so.

I know it might be a massive step of faith to offer your whole self to God, but this is done in light of God’s mercy and, therefore, his own sacrifice for you on the cross. 

At this moment, you might feel stirred to offer God an area of your life. Maybe it is a dream or desire, a situation or outcome, a relationship or an opportunity, or surrendering yourself wholeheartedly to His ways and will. 

Well, let me encourage you that it says this is our most beautiful and true worship to Him.

Offering yourself as a living sacrifice is a daily choice. 

Today is a new opportunity to choose to be ‘all in’.

Questions:

(1) What stood out to you by the phrase ‘living sacrifice’ in Romans 12:1?

(2) What are you choosing to surrender to God?

Prayer:

Dear Jesus, You gave your all for me on the cross. Now I offer my whole self to you. I surrender, Lord. Have your way in me. I am all in. I am yours. In Jesus' name, Amen.