Worship

I was cleaning out my email this afternoon and found an email I wrote at the beginning of junior year (i.e. last year), and it was so cool to be reminded of something so important again at the beginning of what is looking to be the busiest semester of college for me. God is so great!

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual act of worship.”
-Romans 12:1

It is so infinitely important for us to do this at the beginning of the semester before classes, activities, etc. start to take over our lives. Worship is an all-the-time thing – it needs to encompass all of life! Worshipping God through every aspect of our lives in reverent submission should be continuous! Remember that under the new covenant, sacrifices are no longer needed, but even in the OT, Samuel instructed King Saul that “to obey is better than sacrifice” (1 Sam 15:22). We must make every effort to obey God without reservations! It is so encouraging that we don’t have to wait for a priest to absolve us of our sins – Jesus has already done that and all we can do in return is obey and worship Him!