Sacrifice

What is it in your life that you are being called to lay down at the foot of the cross and give up. Part of the Christian life is sacrifice and no matter how much we are called to give, our Savior gave more. Our Savior, the incomparable Jesus Christ, sacrificed more than the whole of all other men's sacrifices! That is an impressive feat, because we can probably think of people who have sacrificed a lot over the course of their lives. Add up all of those sacrifices and you can't even begin to compare it to the sacrifice Christ made on the cross. Christ didn't just give up His life. He took upon the sin of all His children upon his shoulder and set aside His eternal union with the Father and Spirit to have the wrath of God poured upon Him for our sakes! He did it willfully, and he was pleased to do it! Oh how foolish we are when we look at the trivial things we fight not to lose, and how much we grumble when we're called to sacrifice! If only we had our eyes focused on the eternal things, sacrifice would be trivial, because the joy of losing your earthly pleasures to gain eternal pleasures is unfathomable! But our eyes are focused on our circumstances and not our destiny, our hearts adore temporal things and not eternal things, our passions are for fleshly things and not heavenly things. These indictments are true of us all too often, but thank God for grace, and thank God for His sanctifying work; taking our worthless lives and giving them purpose and value in Jesus Christ. God give us eternal eyes and help us to view sacrifice through Your eyes and cause us to do it joyfully!