Consecrated Lives

I Samuel 20-21; Psalms 34, Matthew 5 

“But the priest answered David,…’there is some consecrated bread here – provided the men have kept themselves from women.’ David replied, ‘Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men’s things are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!’”

1 Samuel 21:4, 5

David was offered consecrated bread because he professed a consecrated body. His statement that the men’s bodies were holy, even on missions that are not holy, took the subject of consecration to another level. God begins with people before tasks. Offering our lives to God through the surrender of our wills and all that we are sets us apart for God’s purposes. Then, everything we do becomes an opportunity to bring glory to God. When we are holy, our mission becomes the enjoyment of God’s presence and pleasure, both in our leisure and our work. To be holy is to be set apart for the purposes of God, which include knowing him and making him known in all of life. There is no distinction between sacred and secular.

Does this describe how we are living?

“Lord Jesus, thank you for enjoying this day with me, for your glory.”