Living Sacrifices

The first step into the realm of giving is a surrender - not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for "no polluted thing" can be offered - Lilias Trotter

How often are we guilty of giving God leftovers! We run to Him with broken things, shattered dreams, only as a last resort.

Never did we think of looking to Him first in everything, of offering our very best to Him that it may glorify His name. Instead, we treat God as an option - the last choice.

But this is not the way to serve God, who gave us the best gift of all.

To truly serve God, we must be willing to surrender ALL to Him - our hopes, dreams, desires, plans, our very lives. We must be willing to forgo our own pleasures and comfort and choose to take up the cross.

How can our lives be a gift to God if it costs us nothing?

Only by giving all to God - not just the rotten bits - can we be living sacrifices to Him.

Be like King David, who refused to give to God that which cost him nothing. True giving requires true sacrifice.

You can never outgive God. You can't really mean that you want to live for God unless you're willing to give up and surrender to Him the things you value the most - that is true giving.

This Christmas, offer yourself, your very life to God. It's a small price in return for His gifts of love, grace and mercy found in Christ Jesus.

If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad - Ruth Stull.