Through the Savior's death you have assured me that mine won't be the end of our relationship, but the beginning of life with you. Thank you, Almighty God, for sending Jesus to break Satan's stranglehold over us. He took Satan's greatest tool and disarmed it. He's the one who won the big showdown at Calvary, triumphing over Satan. But rather than spending our time worrying about him, let's resist him when we are tempted and focus on Jesus. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. God gave it through his sacrificial gift so our salvation would not be our boast, but his kindness.īe self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. We didn't earn it, deserve it, or purchase it. The greatest gift we've ever received has nothing to do with our efforts. It is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.ĭon't you love gifts! When they're truly given, with no strings attached, all we have to do is receive them. I offer you me - all that I have and am - to be yours today. To the best of my ability, I pledge today to live for you in a way that leaves nothing outside your Lordship and control. But I confess, there are little things (and maybe some big things), that I keep from ever placing on that altar. Holy and Righteous Savior, I want to surrender my life, my body, and will to you. But, since we are that sacrifice, let's offer ourselves fully to God! Only one problem: The sacrifice wants to keep crawling off the altar. 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.īecause God went first and sacrificed what is most precious to him to save us, he can ask us to surrender ourselves to him.
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