Living sacrificially is to serve the LORD by serving others.

  What about your heart?  Does it need to be circumcised?  Does there need to be a ‘cutting away’ those choices and words and thoughts that loves to sin against God?  (All sin is ultimately against God.  And sin begins with thoughts and motives.)

  A servant’s heart chooses to cut out what is displeasing to God:
(NASB) Romans 12:1-2 “THEREFORE I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”

  A servant’s heart chooses…God’s way!
(NASB) Romans 12:9 “Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.”

  Sincere love does not wear two faces…it is without hypocrisy.

  Abhorring evil is to turn from instant gratification – this can be done with the help which comes from God…He is living within all followers of Christ…our faith is in His power to overcome our base desires (even if the world and our culture states otherwise).

  Cling; hang on tight to what is good.  At times this will require great strength of saying no to wrong desires, emotions or pressures that seek to undermine, disarm and give us defeat.
  Hangeth in there…our God is greater than anything the world, the devil or sin can throw at us.

  A servant’s heart trusts in God…clinging to Him.  Great Christians through the ages have that in common…they trusted in God when it was really hard…read the biographies of J. Hudson Taylor (founder of the China Inland Mission), or “In the Presence of My Enemies” a husband and wife’s ordeal in the Philippine jungle for a year of terror (Martin and Garcia Burnham in 2001-2002).

 

A servant’s heart trusts in God…cling to Him!