Present yourselves to God

And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. – Romans 6.13

We are all at least a little concerned about how we present ourselves. We want to make sure our hair is done right, our clothes look decent, and we don't have any food showing between our teeth. There is nothing wrong with a balance concern about our general presentation.

But sometimes we don't worry near as much about our spiritual presentation. Here we are charged, now that we are dead to the power of sin and alive to God, to present ourselves, all of us, every aspect of us to God and His righteousness.

The truth is that God doesn't want a lot out of us. He wants all of us. He wants us to live righteous lives to His glory.

I can't help but be reminded of a verse we will see a little later. 'I beseech you therefore brethren that you present your bodies as a loving sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service’

Why is it then that we so often present ourselves to our old boss instead of our new one? Why do we keep showing up for work in the wrong place?

It’s pretty simple. We are not doing a very good job of reckoning ourselves dead to sin. For some reason we keep going back there.

Our task is to stop presenting ourselves to serve sin and instead present ourselves to serve our God and present all that He have for Him to use for His glory.