Your Offering to God
” Offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life.” Romans 6:13
How beautiful is the season of change!
Fall inevitabably ushers in a myriad of color– stirring the senses, moving the heart.
Change creates beauty,
Every time.
Deepest crimsons, burnished golds, weathered browns, coppered oranges
declare death and life simultaneously.
Death must come to the trees’ foliage but life comes as the leaves fall to the ground and are absorbed into the soil as mulch for another season.
What graphic insight!
There will always be cycles of becoming, dying and then becoming again.
We are not static in life.
The autumn leaves depict ” real life.”
There is beauty in dying, promise, nurture.
The saints of old were not afraid to use the word surrender.
They understood ” death to self” and so must we.
We are to present our lives as a offering to God each day.
It ‘s been a long time since I have thought about this word but here it is:
CONSECRATE
Webster’s says, to concecrate means ” to declare, to set apart as sacred.”
So many times we use up our lives on the run, solo, or in activity consumed and unto our selves thinking that we are at least “doing something for God.”
We run out of gas, time, love, energy and hope.
We run out of fear not focus.
We forget that we need to “die every day to ourselves” and deliberately take up the life God Almighty has for us– in CHRIST JESUS.
In dying we live…”dying, and yet we live on.” II Corinthians 6:9″
What a thought.
It is God’s way of making us see that we are to be an offering,set apart for His purposes.
And it brings beauty to our souls, oxygen to our faith and holiness to our journey.
The old hymn says it best:
Just as I am, Thy love unknown,
Has broken every barrier down,
Now to be Thine, yea Thine ALONE,
O Lamb of God I come.
“Father, we come and lay down our lives before YOU as an offering.
Show us how to live through change.
Cause us to see the beauty in dying to self and the faith in surrender.
We long for a vibrant, God breathed, life and it is only possible in consecration.
We are to be a holy people and only YOU can make that happen.
Thank YOU for the surrender in Jesus’ shed blood on the Cross for our sin, our dreams of significance, our future.
We bow down in thanksgiving for this incredible life YOu have given to us.
Bless my brothers and sisters as they pursue it with vigor and in awe.
It is because of the Love of JESUS and in His Holy Name I pray.
Have a blessed Autumn in Him,
Billie
