"The Best Gift of All" - by Margaret Slaughter

 “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.”

Romans 12:1 KJV

 

Have you ever agonized about buying a gift for a person that has everything?  You mull it over in your mind for weeks.  You’re completely stumped.  Cash is always good, but you think that’s too unoriginal and impersonal.  You eventually settle on a gift, hoping they can use it.

As I was thinking about this, I thought to myself, what do you give God, He owns everything?  His Word says so . . . “Everything belongs to God, and all things were created by his power.” –Hebrews 2:10 CEV.  So, again, what do you offer someone that owns everything?  Well, your life, of course!  Let’s look at our subject scripture in The Message version:

Romans 12:1-2

Place Your Life Before God

^1-2So 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.

The title alone gives you an idea: Place Your Life Before God.  If you love God the way you say that you do, and you want to give him “The Best Gift of All”, place your life before Him. Be available to Him.  Let Him use you for His service.  He’s waiting.

Margaret Slaughter