Sea Storm in Pacifica, California by Brocken Inaglory
Good morning,
If you haven’t read part one, I wrote that late in the afternoon yesterday. 🙂 Read that first. 🙂
Today is my Luke’s birthday. We went out last night with the hope of getting him a birthday gift. Nothing like waiting until the last minute…I figured I could get the Bible I wanted for him at the Christian book store. Silly me. The sales lady looked at me blankly and said she had never heard of the study Bible for which I searching. So online today I go and he gets his favorite Perry the Platypus t-shirt and shorts with gear…Mercy. The shirt is very cute…but it most certainly was not the intended purchase. 😉 Of course, to my Luker, the Bible is a gift that, well, to a nine year old is a bit difficult to thrill over. As, well, me, I’d thrill..but…:) God knows how to care for my little guy in big and small ways.
As we pray for our toe headed boy today, we dedicate this precious to the Lord. Yet, Luke must bow his knee. He must take a stance of presenting (as we talked about yesterday, wouldn’t it be wonderful to sit over a cuppa and talk about the Word? one word..heaven!) his body. He needs to remember as do I, as do you that we would do well to lay our bodies down daily. Remember, dying to ourselves (Luke 9:23).
as a living sacrifice, holy…
living: live, breathe, be among the living (not lifeless, not dead), a sacrifice, symbolic of the believer, Rom 12:1;
holy: a most holy calling, saint. This sainthood….it is a state into which God in grace calls men; yet believers are called to sanctify themselves (consistently with their calling, 2Ti 1:9), cleansing themselves from all defilement, forsaking sin, living a “holy” manner of life, 1Pe 1:15; 2Pe 3:11, and experiencing fellowship with God in His holiness.
sacrifice: primarily denotes “the act of offering;” then, objectively, “that which is offered”, of the body of the believer, presented to God as a living “sacrifice
So the Greek gives us so much more depth and understanding to just this phrase..we are called to be among the living, yet willing to lay down our lives which is a most holy calling. Sainthood:
Process–We are called by God HIS GRACE—called to sanctify ourselves (set ourselves apart)—cleansing ourselves from defilement (um, as a work of the Holy Spirit and because of the blood of Jesus!)—forsaking sin (keeping in mind, cleaving steadfastly to Jesus, right? LUKE 9:23)—living in a holy manner of life (Peter’s words in those two links above talk about this very thing!)—which leads to praise be! experiencing the wonder of fellowship with God in His holiness..then, the idea of sacrifice, that which is offered is offered in love. Experience a moment in the presence and the sacrifice is a gift.
Well, birthday boy is awake. The day has begun.
Calm Seas in Boyndie Bay Compare this peaceful scene with [[[743927]]], which was taken only a few weeks earlier in the year (not the same year, however) by Anne Burgess
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