Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is very good!
Does My Sacrifice Live?
And Abraham built an altar…and bound
Isaac his son. — Genesis 22:9
This incident is a picture of the
blunder we make in thinking that the final thing 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, viz., sacrifice our lives. Not “I am
willing to go to death with Thee,” but, “I am willing to be identified with Thy
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 blunder, and the same
discipline goes on in our lives. God nowhere tells us to give up things for the
sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing
worth having, viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bands
that hinder the life, and immediately those bands are loosened by
identification with the death of Jesus, we enter into a relationship with God
whereby we can 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 powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus. This is
the thing that is acceptable to God.
I LOVE this! If we 'die' for JESUS, then WE WIN! We get to be in Heaven with Him for all eternity! What sacrifice is THAT? BUT, if we LIVE for Him, there will be times that will be uncomfortable and sometimes even messy, BUT HE will be glorified! And then WE can fulfill the ministry that HE called us to from before the foundation of the world! AMEN! Meditate on this until there rises up within you ann excitement for the things of God that cannot be quenched, no matter WHAT the enemy tries to do! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "God One And Only":
Shalom in Him!
