We have to identify the areas of our life that are not addressed by God

The apostle Paul calls us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice. The Greek word translated 'bodies' refers not only to the biological aspect, not only to what we would often say 'the flesh' but it is broader and refers to everything that has to do with human biology, everything that is refers to our human nature.

It can refer to everything that has not been treated by God, it can also refer to the body, the sexual organs, the hands, the ears but it also refers to all these areas that we sometimes call the soul, it can be the psychology, it can be the will, memories, intelligence, emotions; All this aspect that has to do with what obeys matter, the material part of our life, what interacts with the world, that is what the Bible calls the body.

Unlike the spirit that is what the Bible generally uses, the word it uses to refer to our highest part, the upper part of the human being, that nature of God that is in us, those higher faculties of the spirit, right? that conform to the Word of the Lord as the apostle Paul says in another passage where he speaks of there being two natures in me; There is a part of my being that wants to serve the Lord, that wants to please him, but there is another part that is always struggling and that wants to obey impure things and that is in direct contact with Satan and with his claims and that Paul is divided between those two things right? he feels like he is in conflict, that he is hostage to those two natures.

In Romans 12 he is saying: hey take that carnal part of your life, that part that is in conflict with the purposes of God and give it to the Lord. Notice that he is not referring only to the spirit because many people think: well take your spirit and present it to God, feed your spirit, think about the things of the spirit and all that is true but the truth is that we also have to bring our flesh.

The flesh is important, the body is important, biology is important, our human nature is important, and we have to present that part of our being to the Lord continually. There are many passages here, the apostle Paul for example in chapter 6 says: "Knowing this that our old man was crucified together with him so that the body of sin is destroyed so that we no longer serve sin" you see here that idea right? that we have to kill that terrible dimension of ourselves because that is the part that continually drags us over and over again to disobey the things that God commands us.

Chapter 7 of Romans also says: "So, wanting to do good I find this" this law "that evil is in me because according to the inner man" that is to say according to my spirit "I delight in the law of God but I see another law in my members "in other words, do you remember that he says not to present our members as subject to sin? "But I see another law in my flesh, in my 'somata' members that rebels against the law of my mind and that leads me captive to the law of sin that is in my members."

It is like that before the understanding of the apostle Paul, where does evil reside, where do sinful tendencies reside? It is in the flesh, in the body, be it the unrepentant mind not treated by God, be it the emotions or the will, all these aspects of our psychology and our biology.

So we have to present that over and over again in prayer so that God will continually deal with it. That is why Paul also says: "So it is no longer I who do that but the sin that dwells in me and I know that in me, this is in my flesh, in my flesh good does not dwell because wanting the good is in me but not doing it. "

Do you see then why Paul says in Romans 12: present your bodies? because that's where the problem is. We have to identify the areas of our life that are not addressed by God and those areas we have to present them to the Lord continuously in prayer, fasting, confession those areas of our being instead of simply saying: ah well that is something that is there and I have to learn to live with it, no. We have to bring it to the Lord, present it to the Lord and ask Him to deal with it and regenerate it and make it an instrument for God's holiness and justice.

I beg you in light of what God has done with us to present your bodies, your human nature before the Lord and we will see a little more in depth that call to holiness in our next meditation. May the Lord bless you and we will speak very soon.