Quote of the Day - Chuck Swindoll
The dictionary would call the phrase ‘living sacrifice’ an oxymoron, a term that is logically self-defeating. Paul’s odd expression is a lot like telling someone to become a living martyr. How can that be? To become a martyr, one has to die. In this case Paul isn’t asking us to seek our own demise, not literally. He is, however, pleading for us to give up our life as we continue living it. When we get out of bed in the morning, as we arrive at work and put in those hours, as we relate, as we play, as we carry out our personal responsibilities then fall into bed for the night, we are to do everything as a deliberate act of submission out of obedience to God. That path leads to our becoming a living, breathing sacrifice - dead to anything our Master hates, devoted to everything He loves.
- Chuck Swindoll, Insight for Living Ministries
