“Present yourself unto God, as alive from the dead…” (Romans 6:13). Many have taken this word “present” to imply consecration, without looking carefully into its content.
Of course that is what it does mean, but not in the sense in which we are inclined to understand it. It is not the consecration of our “old man” with his instincts and resources, his natural wisdom, strength and other gifts, to the Lord God for Him to use. This will be clear at once from the little clause “as alive from the dead”. It defines for us the point at which consecration begins.
For what is to be consecrated is not what belongs to the old creation, but only what has passed through death to resurrection. The “presenting” spoken of is the outcome of my knowing my old man to be crucified, and my reckoning myself alive unto God in Christ Jesus. Knowing, reckoning, presenting ourselves to Him: that is the divine order.
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