The whole temperament of the world is to get away from our bodies making any kind of sacrifice. Our goal is to make our bodies comfortable. The health and wealth syndrome is predominant in our world today. We want to take care of the body and make it last forever. While we are making the body comfortable, Paul tells us to make our body a living sacrifice. Do we know what it is to labor for God until we are exhausted? To work and sweat in his kingdom until we have laid some kind of reasonable and sensible sacrifice on the altar to him? I submit to you that we need to move out of the realm of the superficial and into the realm of the sacrificial. We have an awful lot of superficial saints right here. Instead we ought to be sacrificial saints. We are, as George Elliot said, willing to make any sacrifice for him so long as it is not an inconvenience.
