Is My Sacrifice Living?
IS
MY SACRIFICE LIVING?
“Abraham built an
altar . . . ; and he bound Lsaac his son and laid him on the altar . . .”
(Genesis 22:9).
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his event is a picture
of the mistake we make in thinking that the ultimate God wants of us is the
sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables us to do what Jesus did, that is,
sacrifice our lives. Not—“Lord, I am ready to go with You . . . to death” (Luke
22:23). But—“I am willing to be identified with Your death so that I may
sacrifice my life to God.”
We seem to think that God wants us to give up things! God
purified Abraham from this error, and the same process is at work in our lives.
God never tells us to give up things just for the sake of giving them up, but
He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having,
namely, life with Himself. If is a matter of loosening the bands that hold back
our lives. Those bands are loosened immediately by identification with the
death of Jesus. Then we enter into a relationship with God whereby we may
sacrifice our lives to Him.
It is of no value to God to give Him your life for death.
He wants you to be a “living sacrifice”—to
let Him have all your strengths that have been saved and sanctified through
Jesus (Romans 12:1). This is what is acceptable to God.
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