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“I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.”

—Romans 12:1

We often make a distinction between the spiritual and the physical, separating the things we do in the service of the kingdom of God from the things we must do in the day–to–day. This is just one of the verses that reminds us they are inextricably connected.

What we do in and with our bodies every day either glorifies God as spiritual worship . . . or it doesn’t. Everything we do from the moment we wake up till the moment we fall asleep can be worship.

And we aren’t talking about over–spiritualizing the mundane. We don’t have to over–spiritualize it, because we can glorify God by working hard (Colossians 3:23–24), by showing integrity in the small, daily tasks before us (Luke 16:10), by helping others without grumbling (1 Peter 4:9), and by abstaining from the things that do not glorify God (1 Thessalonians 5:22–23).

It’s easy to think of our verse only in the context of making sure we don’t displease God in what we do in our bodies, and that matters, but there is also the beauty of the Lord giving purpose and value to the ordinary tasks we do every day. Those things are living sacrifice and spiritual worship.

Many of us feel we aren’t doing anything important with our lives, but this is God telling us it’s all important.

So let’s go about our days joyfully, knowing that everything from the dishes to going to work to reading our kids a bed–time story can be an act of worship.

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