Romans 12:1-2
I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Homily:
Whenever I read that we are “to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God”, I remember God’s advice to Cain and what determines the acceptability of our sacrifice.
“Then the Lord said to Cain, “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”” – Genesis 4:7 (NIV)
We live in an age where you have to be deliberately dumb not to know what is right.
However, most times, sin is ever crouching at our door. So how do we rule sin? By leaving the door closed to it.