Romans 12:1
Live To Serve
"Therefore I urge you dear brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship."
Paul's appeal to the church in Rome is just as applicable to us as it was to the men and women of the first century church. In our study of the Tetramorph Gospel, we studied the role of Christ as the Ox, the servant, who gave his live up to and including death to ransom many. His call for us to follow his example is a similar pattern: die to ones self and live for others. In the verses that follow Romans 12:1, we read Paul's plea for us to live in unity as the body, serving one another as God has equipped us. When we serve in the capacity that God formed us, we fulfill the living embodiment of Christ as the servant Ox. We show the world one of the four faces of Christ.
Where will you serve today? Who will you serve? And how can you perform that service and share the Gospel - the Good News - of Jesus?
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