We have been talking about how to live life on the altar. Romans 12:1 teaches that because of the mercies of God we are to become living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to him. In Romans 12:2 we learned that we must not allow our thoughts and actions to be conformed to this world but to be transformed by God through the renewing of our minds so we can discern the will of God. In Romans 12:3-8 Paul taught that we need to change the way we think about ourselves and others so that we will see that we have been given gifts that must be used joyfully so that God is glorified. In Romans 12:9-10 Paul now turns his attention to love. If we are going to be living sacrifices, then we must love. However, it is easy for us to think that we are loving the way God wants us to love because we can make our own definitions of what love is supposed to look like. So the scriptures have to teach us what godly love looks like. Since we are not to be conformed to the world but transformed, then we must listen to what God says love looks like and not what the world says love looks like. When talking about love, you might think about 1 Corinthians 13 where Paul describes what love looks like. But here in Romans 12:9-10 Paul gives us another description about what love looks like and what love does…

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