Recognition
Romans 12:1 New English Translation
Consecration of the Believer’s Life
12 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—alive, holy, and pleasing to God—which is your reasonable service.
Recognition
If Christ is my Master and my body a living sacrifice
I am not longer responsible, if I live in total obedience
The battle is the Lord’s and all I do is exercise faith
For eating, sleeping, and drinking is not life’s experience
Death is pre-eminently a progressive matter
Relentlessly devouring anything in its path
It can strike at any without really selecting
The victims, which are caught up close or afar
God Himself is more precious than the gifts He bestows
Do we really appreciate Him for The One He really is?
Or! Do we like His blessings more in giving us security?
Do we like His gifts more than His lovely Blessedness?
Jan Wienen