YOUR TRUE WORSHIP BEFORE GOD

It has often been said that songs of praise, thanksgiving and worship is the only thing we can give to God. Worship leaders, music ministers and our pastors have repeatedly drummed these words in our ears. While it is true that God should be greatly praised and heartily worshipped, there is more to giving pleasure to God.

Beyond sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving, it is even more imperative to give your heart to God and consecrate your very self to Him. That is greater and more valuable than the best of sacrifices you will ever give. Hence, when Jesus came into the world, God would not require of Him sacrifice and offering, but a body prepared unto the Lord (Hebrews 10:5). The ultimate sacrifice and offering that Christ gave was His body.

God requires the same thing from us today, not to give ourselves to physical sacrifice of the body through crucifixion like Christ, but to lay before Him a life completely surrendered without giving room for the gratification of the desires of the flesh. The Bible insists that you present your body, indeed your whole being to God as a living sacrifice.

Some people give God their praise, and worship Him with songs of thanksgiving. But at the same time, they give their body to Satan in sinful practices and evil concupiscence. Your true and ultimate worship is not the songs you sing but a body wholly dedicated to God, which is by extension a life totally abandoned to Him. Receive grace to give God your most reasonable act of worship.