The Daily Meditation - November 15 2010

Romans 12:1-2

1 I Beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies
of God, that ye give up your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
reasonable serving of God. (a) (b) (c)
2 And fashion not yourselves like unto this world,
but be ye changed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what that good, and acceptable
and perfect will of God is.

(a) Editor’s thought - As Christ was faithful unto the cross, it is, (while not easy) our duty as Christians to be faithful unto the ways in which God wishes us to live. Hence the concept of a living sacrifice.

(b) Editor’s note - Reasonable - logikos log-ik-os' rational ("logical"):--reasonable, of the word. This was a bit of surprise when I found the translation. For the Greek translation for the word “word” is Logos - logos, log'-os - something said, including the thought; by implication, a topic a subject of discourse. So, one might say that reasonable service is of a logical procession of order of transition from the old man to the new man. Source Strong’s Concordance

(c) Editor’s note - Reasonable - Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; as a reasonable being. Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally or according to the dictates of reason. Source Webster’s Dictionary Edition 1828

Related Scriptures

John 3:3, 7;
2 Corinthians 4:16;
2 Corinthians 10:1-4;
Ephesians 4:23;
Ephesians 5:17;
Colossians 3:10;
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8;
Hebrews 10:18, 20;
1 Peter 1:23;
1 John 2:15;