you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
reasonable service.
Romans 12:1
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When
Mark 15:21-26
we've dedicated our bodies as living sacrifices to Christ, we don't
just sit around and enjoy the experience. We constructively go out and
serve.
One Sunday in
Copenhagen, Corrie ten Boom, 80, spoke from Romans 12:1, urging her
audience to present their bodies to Christ as living sacrifices. After
church, two nurses invited her to their apartment for lunch, and Corrie
went with them—only to discover they lived on the tenth floor, and
there was no elevator. The task of mounting those stairs was almost
more than she could stand, and she wondered if she might die en route.
"Perhaps I am leaving earth to go to heaven," she complained to herself.
Finally arriving
in the apartment, Corrie found the parents of one of the girls waiting
there, wanting to be saved, and both gloriously received Christ as
their Savior.
On her way down
the steps, Corrie said, "Thank you, Lord, for making me walk up all
these steps. And next time, Lord, help Corrie ten Boom listen to her
own sermon about being willing to go anywhere You tell me to go—even up
ten flights of stairs."
Lord, make me willing, get me going, and take me higher!
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