Episode 312: How to Embrace God’s Love

What do you intend to give back for God’s Love? What do you intend to give back for the sacrifice Jesus made for you and I? In the last podcast - Episode 311, the focus was on praising God for sending His son Jesus as a permanent sacrifice to bridge the gap between man and God. Jesus was sent to reconcile us back to God. Halleluyah! Today, we will be moving from Receiving to Giving mode. We have received God’s best gift - Jesus! His life! His blood! His love! His Holy Spirit! What are we required to give back as a proof of our love to our Father? What should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? Our response is to surrender ourselves to God to be his holy, living sacrifices just as Jesus did. This time around- we die to self, we daily die to desires contrary to God’s will. We choose to live in holiness by the help of the Spirit of God. Rom 12:1 will give a better explanation “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ I love the MSG Translation- “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭MSG‬‬ Remember, as the priests were required to make a daily sacrifice of lambs, for them to enjoy God’s daily abiding and manifest presence and power, so we must daily die to self- Taking our everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and placing it before God as an offering so we can reign as God’s priests and kings as God intended.