Romans 12 urges us to pursue a transformative life with God in what we do and how we live the details of our lives. The invitation is to offer our hours and days and bodies and lives as living sacrifices because God has demonstrated that life with him is worth taking hold of once and for all. We can only sustain that kind of lived sacrifice if our way of living is rooted in meaningful and true belief in and about the God who raised Jesus and who will raise us with Jesus.