Day 40: Now What About You? (Romans 12)
The whole purpose of this 40 day devotional leading up to Easter was for you to focus on the experiences of real people in the Bible whose lives and hearts were resurrected by Jesus Christ, whose resurrection we celebrate today. This devotional, if read every day, likely challenged, convicted, and humbled you as you read these incredible testimonies and answered honestly the questions that followed. If you have been challenged in your relationship with Christ, your attitudes, your mindsets, and your sinful ways, there is a very good chance that your heart is in the process of being resurrected to a new place of faith.
Can you see that new growth that comes from death to your flesh and surrender to Jesus? Or are you still acting like the same person you were before your salvation? What sins have you overcome since you have been saved? Do you want to experience the kind of dramatic conversion that those you have been reading about the last 40 days, the kind of conversion that reveals to all who know you that you have been resurrected to a new life? Do you struggle to know what is required of you?
Look at Romans 12: 1-2. They hold the key.
“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present (surrender) your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed (any longer) to this world, but be transformed (resurrected) by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Surrender everything to God! That is true worship, and God expects it of us. It is a reasonable request that, if He died for us, we would choose to live for Him! We must be conformed to what God wants, not what we want, because that is a worldly and selfish lifestyle. By allowing God to convert your heart as you read, study, and apply the Word, and as you surrender to God completely, you can experience a “Lazarus” resurrection—a calling forth from the way of death to the way of life. This can be your resurrection day! Hallelujah!
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