“A Long Haul” is August 6’s morning entry from Dr. David Jeremiah’s ‘Turning Points with God: 365 Daily Devotions’.
"I beseech [urgently ask] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service." Romans 12:1
When we’ve dedicated our bodies as living sacrifices to God, we don’t sit around and enjoy the experience. We constructively go out and serve.
One Sunday in Copenhagen, Corrie ten Boom, at 80 years of age, spoke from Romans 12:1, urging her audience to present their bodies to Christ as living sacrifices. After church, 2 nurses invited her to their apartment for coffee, and Corrie went with them–only to discover that they lived on the tenth floor of a building with no elevator. The task of climbing those stairs was almost more than she could stand, and she wondered if she might die en route. Perhaps I am leaving earth to go to heaven, she complained to herself.
Finally arriving in the apartment. Corrie found the parents of one of the girls waiting there, wanting to be saved, and both gloriously received Christ as their Savior.
On her way down the steps Corrie said, “Thank you, Lord, for making me walk up all these steps. And next time, Lord, help Corrie ten Boom listen to her own sermon about being willing to go anywhere You tell me to go-even up ten flights of stairs.”
To end, a quote from unknown, “Lord, make me willing, get me going, and take me higher!”
