![]() 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. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:1-2) What God requests of us is an abandonment, a pure submission. It is only then can we present ourselves to Him as a living sacrifice so that we can be transformed by the renewing of our minds. If there is something in our pocket that we forgot to lay on the altar, something hidden in our closet, or stuck under the sole of our shoe, the Lord wants us to bring it out into the open and lay it before him. All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him. (2 Corinthians 3:13) C.S. Lewis is quoted as saying, “Christ says, "Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good...Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked--the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.” Charles Spurgeon wrote, “In the regeneration of every soul there is a destruction as well as a creation. The old man has to be destroyed—the stony heart has to be taken away out of our flesh. And though this is not done in all of us—no, nor in any of us completely—yet the day shall come when sin shall be utterly destroyed—both root and branch and all evil principles shall be torn up by the roots and, like our sins, they shall cease to be—so that if they were searched for they could not be found.” The mind must be renewed, not just once, but daily. (Romans 12:2) Each morning a renewal, each day turning over to God, once again, something else that we held on to much too long. But God! Dear Lord, regenerate us, renew our minds. Search us Lord and remove anything that is not like you. Purify us with hyssop and we shall be clean. GiGi❤️
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