Entrusted: Your First 35 Days as a Steward

Day 5 of 35 · Week 1: Stewardship of Life

Offer Your Whole Self

Stewardship is not only about what you own. It starts with who you are.

Paul urges believers, in view of God's mercy, to offer their bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. He calls this true and proper worship.

A sacrifice in the Old Testament was placed on the altar and given completely to God. A living sacrifice is different. You stay alive, but you place yourself on the altar every morning. Your hands, your eyes, your words, your energy, your health. All of it offered back to God.

That means caring for your body is part of your faith. Sleep, food, exercise, and rest are not selfish. They are maintenance on something God owns.

It also means what you do with your body matters. Where your feet go. What your eyes watch. What your mouth says. These are not small things to God, because they are not yours.

Paul adds a second instruction. Do not be shaped by the pattern of this world. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. The world will keep telling you that your life is yours to spend on yourself. Renewing your mind means replacing that story with the true one.

Every morning is a new chance to climb back on the altar.

Pray

God, because of Your mercy, I give You my whole self today. My body, my mind, my words, and my energy are Yours. Renew my thinking where the world has shaped it. Make my ordinary day an act of worship. Amen.

Today's Scripture (NIV)

• Romans 12:1-2