BEING REASONABLE
Friday, April 17, 2015
Romans
12:1…
(ASV)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
spiritual service.
(CEV)
Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him as a
living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That's the most sensible way to serve God.
(ESV)
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present
your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your
spiritual worship.
(GNB)
So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you:
Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and
pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.
(GW)
Brothers and sisters, in view of all we have just shared about God's
compassion, I encourage you to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,
dedicated to God and pleasing to him. This kind of worship is appropriate for
you.
(ISV)
I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your
bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the
reasonable way for you to worship.
(KJV)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is
your reasonable service.
(LITV)
Therefore, brothers, I call on you through the compassions of God to
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your
reasonable service.
(MKJV)
I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable
service.
(RV) I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Familial
education left me ingrained with “being reasonable” meaning compromise with
people. Without realizing it, this was just one of many worldly concepts I
carried into new life in Christ that began 50+ years ago.
In studying God’s Word
(Living - Jn.1:1; Written - 2Tim.3:16) I soon discovered how wrong I was to think
and live this way. I now understand “reasonable” is sensibly submitting to
God’s mercies. And that God’s Way is surprisingly often not man’s way: “For My
thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways My ways, says Jehovah. For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My
thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isa.55:8-9;
also note 1Sam.15:22-23)
Since anger,
thirst for vengeance, and a few other nasty items are no longer personal
plague, it would be easy to think myself completely on the God-pleasing side of
Romans 12:1. I confess my life still counts unreasonable moments.
How fortunate
that though unreasonable moments suppress God’s mercies in my life (1Thes.5:19),
my actions do not and cannot diminish His ever available compassions.
O’ how I thank
Him for His sacrificial love! In response, may I walk in love, as Christ also
has loved us, and has given Himself for us as obedient fragrant sacrifice to
God.(Mt.26:39-42; Rom.12:1-3; Eph.5:2)
Let us without
delay join together in being reasonable His way. EBB4
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