A Living Sacrifice

"I beseech 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
Now we can understand why we there are assistants who are active, tireless in the Work of God, evangelizing, counseling people and even casting out demons during many years in the Church, and when we least expect it, they grow cold, suddenly fall away from the faith and stop coming to Church. The main reason why this happens is that these people never surrendered their bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.
Among other meanings, A LIVING SACRIFICE means:
Depriving yourself from something for the benefit of others. When we deprive ourselves of the customs and attitudes of sin, whatever they may be, we are sacrificing (killing) the desires of our flesh. So we become numb to this world and alive on the altar, in perfect communion with God.
HOLY means to be set apart. Do you remember what is written?
"For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?" Matthew 23.19

When we present our bodies as a living sacrifice on the altar, God sets us apart from this world, its sufferings and, in the future, from hell, if we endure until the end, because He wants us to be with Him for all eternity, praise God!
ACCEPTABLE means pleasing, satisfactory. When we present our bodies as living sacrifices; in other words, each time you resist promiscuity, adultery, lying, stealing and all other kinds of sin, God inhales our attitude as a pleasant aroma. He is happy to have us as children, as a living offering on His altar. Do you remember what He said about the Lord Jesus?
"And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Matthew 3.17
Lets make an internal analysis: Who among us, assistants, can God say the same thing to?
THINK!
God bless you.