Paul tells us to offer our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God for this is our spiritual act of worship. This is him telling the church how to be the church. Be Christ's hands and feet. Love is all we have to give so give it. We are Christ's body in this world. We must seek out the lost, sick, desperate people of this world and be Christ's hands and feet to them. This is our sacrificing of the body. This is our spiritual act of worship. How do you give value to something without giving your life to it? Storing up treasures in heaven should be our life. This is an instruction to you, to stop putting on a show and start feeding the hungry, visiting prisoners, take the homeless home with you. Until we start caring about those we are caring for we aren't being Christ's body.
Every day, in everyday life, we have this opportunity. Love. Paul says we are nothing without love, a resounding gong. Noise. In fact, really annoying noise. Maybe that's why the world is so annoyed with American Christianity. We stopped loving people. We stopped caring enough to sacrifice ourselves. Without love they see right through our legalistic actions and are turned off by our hypocritical piety.
Can we sacrifice our busyness, our need to accomplish, our desire to produce? Instead, can we love those put in our path every day? Those you work with, those you pass on the street, those you live with and next to, and those you call friends and family. They are needy people and their deepest desire is to be loved. Our act of worship to the one we love is to sacrifice our bodies (well being, money, future, time, etc.) for the sake of our neighbors. Have you died yet today?
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