“Wherefore
when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacrifice
and offering thou wouldest not… (neither hadst pleasure [therein])…but a body
hast thou prepared me…I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
[which is] your reasonable service.”
The issue with God is not yours but
you. If He has the latter, He most certainly will get the former. It’s a
package deal, you see. But, it’s possible to give Him the first without you
being in the bargain. And this is unacceptable with God. Paul alludes to this
truth when writing of the Macedonian Christians. They had sacrificed what they
had unto the Lord but had first given themselves.
A life is the only acceptable
sacrifice God will take. Inanimate things are bloodless. And Cain found out,
“you can’t get blood out a turnip.” Also, God has no respect for such things on
His altar, unless, of course, they are connected with a life already on
it. For example, God doesn’t want your
wallet in the offering plate; He wants you in it. If He gets that, He’ll have
what’s in your pockets.
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