Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Romans 12:1-8
by: Paula Davis.
To sacrifice is to give something up for another purpose. We may sacrifice our free time that we were going to spend relaxing to help someone with a task or to listen to and encourage them. We may sacrifice money we have put away for a vacation to give to someone with an urgent need. God calls us to sacrifice our bodies—not in the literal sense, but in an act of submission to Him and even to others. When we practice this act of placing everything about us onto His altar, we begin to see life differently. We see God’s will and desires above our own and have the desire to be part of His body of believers, giving up the pursuit of our own selfish words and actions.