I was reading the account of Noah and the flood earlier this week when I realized something . After the flood Noah, his family, and the animals came off the ark and Genesis 8:20 reads, “Then Noah built an alter to the LORD and taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.”
It occurred to me that some of the “clean” animals that were saved from the flood were subsequently sacrificed to God (The Savior) once the destruction was over.
As Christians we are like those animals. We have been “saved” from the the penality of sin, the power of sin, and the judgetment that is to come. Now that we are saved we are not to be released to do as we please. We are now to offer our “bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.” Romans 12:1 goes on to say that “this is our spiritual act of worship.”
Our worship to God is not the songs we sing, or the “service” we go to every Sunday. We worship when we yield our lives to GOD to be consumed by HIM in HIS service however HE pleases. But as a former Pastor of mine (Philip Duncan) once said, “The problem with living sacrifices is that they keep crawling off the alter.” Let us once again offer our lives to HIM. After all it was for this purpose that we have been saved.
