Your Sacrifice

Psalm 116:12

What can I offer the LORD

     for all He has done for me?  (NLT)

     In my humble opinion, and from the deepest depth of my heart and soul, I believe that the best thing a true believer can offer their Creator, Provider, Protector, Savior, Advocate, and Lover of their soul is the very life that He created and then saved from eternal death. Our holy and just God saved the people of this wicked world from the darkness and damnation that is rightly deserved. And He did it by physically suffering, dying, and taking our punishment. Our Lord God was brutally murdered by religious thugs for crimes He did not commit. He did this to satisfy God’s anger against His people who no longer followed His ways and a world that blatantly turned against its Creator. Our God is a Saving God and He has been more than patient with this evil world, which is probably more wicked than it was in Noah's days before He destroyed mankind with the flood.  And yet, our Lord God has given this wicked world fair warnings and another escape route so that everyone (not just a select few) will have the chance to change their evil ways and avoid the destruction and eternal condemnation that is coming. 

     But this fallen world tells us a different story.  It blames God for all the pain, suffering, sickness and injustice that appears to have no end—that God does not care and has left us to our own demise.  But our merciful God is not at fault my friend, it's because this wicked world is governed by evil and its people have turned away from God and chosen Satan instead.  We cannot know the ways of God this side of Heaven, but we can know that the Lord is giving the lost and misinformed people of this fallen world more time to hear the Good News Gospel of Jesus Christ.  But as God's redemptive plan draws to an end, there is still time to nail your sinful life to the Cross of Christ and be born again in Spirit and Truth.  For with the blood of Jesus covering your sins, you will escape the terrible wrath of God that will be poured out upon this evil world.  

                                   A Whisper of Hope

I sacrificed My life for you, dear child...now it's time to sacrifice your life for Me.  I came to die for you, so you could live.  I shed My blood to cleanse your sin and paid the price that belonged to you.  I came, I died, and paid your debt!

Romans 12:1

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you

to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and

holy sacrifice—the kind He will accept.  When you

think of what He has done for you, is this too much

to ask?  (NLT)

       “I assure you, unless you are born again, 

      you can never see the Kingdom of God.”

                              (John 3:3)