No longer present your members to sin as instruments of
wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been
brought from death to life, and present your members to God as
instruments of righteousness. (6:13)
Week after week, we make the offering of “ourselves, our souls, our
bodies” to God out of the gratefulness of our hearts. This offering
that we make at the Eucharist is met by the offering God makes in
Christ and there is union, even communion, with the divine. We, as
well as the bread of the Eucharist, become the Body of Christ.
What we then carry into a despairing world is hope, rooted in our
baptisms and nurtured in that union with Christ in the Eucharist. We
offer ourselves to God as instruments of healing to a hurting world.
How God might use us is God’s decision. The decision to make
ourselves available is always ours.
—Duncan Gray III
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