I Am Bring You The Biggest Sacrifice, And The Best Gift I Know To Bring…
Psalm 25:1 Amplified Bible (AMP)
1UNTO YOU, O Lord, do I bring my life.
I remember growing up, my father traveled quite frequently. His job caused him to sometimes be away from home for weeks at a time. He traveled to foreign countries, and has traveled to many places in the United States. When my father would return home us kids would gather around as he unpacked his suit case. We had grown to know that when he went away, at the end of his business trip would be some sort of a surprise for us. Whether a doll from Italy or chocolate from Belgium, there was something that we would be rewarded with; but we would always ask my father so what did you bring us back, and he would often say, me. Looking back on those times, that was absolutely the biggest and best he could have given us, but at that time we seldom appreciate those moments.
Today as I read this scripture it hit me like a two ton truck, what is the biggest sacrifice that I could give to God, what is the best gift that I could give to Him? The answer was so simple, it is me. We try to impress God with our good deeds and how many ministries we volunteer in at church. We think we are really doing something when we are benevolent and give more than just our tithes and our offering. These are wonderful things and God is pleased with them, if they are done in a spirit that honors Him. But even bigger and better than that, have we taken the time to present ourselves to God. Have we chosen the way of obedience rather than the way of compromise and trying to justify it? Have we chosen righteousness over unrighteousness? Have we chosen to bridle our mouth instead of gossiping and slandering others because we are disappointed or angry with them? Have we chosen holiness or are we choosing to place our own definition on holiness and live according to that particular definition? Until we see the need for God, we really aren’t seeing clearly. Until we submit ourselves unto God which is our reasonable service we will not see the fullness of what God has for us nor will we be able to understand all that He could be to us.
We miss out on maximizing our potential, because we have not yet come to understand that to kneel before the Lord our maker and humbly submit our lives to Him is the way to place ourselves in a place where we can become someone extraordinary. Yes, God’s desire is to take the ordinary and to do extraordinary things with and through them. But that can only be when we become that yielded vessel that willingly becomes the sacrifice and the gift that is given back to our Savior. God gave what was His best to us in the form of Jesus; He became the sacrifice and the gift that allows us now to have access to eternal life and life more abundantly. There is a saying that says “our life is a gift from God, what we do with it is our gift to God.” So what are we doing with our lives? Just like when we have a baby we feel the need to dedicate that child back to God, why is it that we don’t feel the need to dedicate ourselves first and foremost unto God as a living sacrifice and as a gift that He can lead and guide, make and mold into someone beautiful in His sight, after all weren’t we created for His good pleasure and unto good works?
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