Your life is an acceptable, pleasing sacrifice to the Lord.

Your life is an acceptable, pleasing sacrifice to the Lord.

“for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings with that which costs me nothing.” (1Chr 21:24)

“you present your bodies a living sacrifice [thusia], holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Rom 12:1)

“for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.” (Phil 2:13)

“Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.” (2Cor 5:9)

“to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him” (Col 1:9,10)

“make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.” (Heb 13:21)

“And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” (1Jn 3:22)

Reading: 1Chr 19-21; Jn 13