True Worship Is The Way To Essential Change

Romans 12:2 

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed

by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is

that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

   What mattered to the Greek was the spirit; the body was only a prison-home, something to be despised and even to be ashamed of. No real Christian ever believed that. We as Christians believe that our body belongs to God just as much as our soul does, and we can serve God with our body alone with our mind and our soul.

    Our bodies as Christians are the temple of the Holy Spirit and the instrument through which the Holy Spirit works. After all, the fact of the incarnation basically means that God did not hesitate to take a human body upon himself, to live in it and to work through it.
    My Friends, True worship is the offering to God of one's body, and what one should do every day with it. Real worship is not the offering to God a service, however noble or a ritual however magnificent.  Real worship is the offering of everyday life to God, not something transacted in a church, but something which shows the whole world that God's Spirit dwells in the Christian Body.  
    As the Bible tells us, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind," (Rom. 12:2a). We may say, "I am going to church to worship God." But we should be able to say, "I am going to the shop, the office, the school, the garage, to the grocery store, to worship God." My Friends, when Christ becomes the center of our lives then we can present real worship, which is the offering of every moment and every action to God.
Amen!

Reading: (Rom. 12:1-2)
Ref: (HG SB)

May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry