[Manna - November 6]
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
TO render all we have to the Lord's service is not
only a reasonable thing, but an offering far too small—far less than what we would like to render to Him
who has manifested such compassion and grace toward
us.
And we should feel thus, even if there were no
rewards attached to such a consecration of ourselves.
But inasmuch as God has attached great rewards and
blessings, we should feel not only that a refusal to
accept would be an indication of non-appreciation of
divine mercy but an indication also of weakness
of mind, of judgment, which is unable to balance the
trifling and transitory pleasures of self-will for a few
short years, with an eternity of joy and blessing and
glory, in harmony with the Lord. Z. '00-170 R2642:5