Romans 12:1, “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” (kjv). I particularly like the KJV translation as it translates that last phrase as “an act of intelligent worship.” Now if I present to God my body as a living sacrifice then that includes everything that the body contains—my brains, my personality, my heart, my emotions, my will, my temperament, my prejudices, my failings, all the rest of it—is presented to God as a living sacrifice. God has, after all, given me
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