Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Obedience vs Sacrifice BY: KB © 4.29.15

So today commute was a mind game…..I was toying with the words obedience and sacrifice. I came by it because I flashed on 1 Samuel 15:22 “….To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of ramswhen the word obey tickertaped across my brain.

Think about it for a minute….the word obey triggered me because it denotes an authority or an authoritative figure. Now, I don’t know about you but I enjoy my autonomy when I’m not talking to or living with my mother or at work. I’m my own boss! I’m the boss of me! I run this! Right?  Wrong! Dead wrong! As a believer I come under the authority of Christ.

Isaiah 9:6     For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Daniel 7:13     "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.

Matthew 11:27     "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Matthew 26:64     "You have said so," Jesus replied. "But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Luke 1:33     and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever; his kingdom will never end."

I have choice (free will) in what I say, do and my level of commitment…but if I truly love God and seek to represent and serve Him my level of connection and commitment should reflect it. I’m not talking about church busy work, Bible Study, Choir and all that….I’m talking about a life of reflection and introspection; not a perfect life. I’m talking about a life impacted and impacting and yet I still praise!

Now, sacrifice…let’s look at that word for a minute because it says something very real. Sacrifice in Biblical terms means to give an offering unto God; burnt or blood. Sacrifice to us in worldly terms means we temporarily give something up because we’re holding onto a reservation to possibly return to it (marinate on that for a minute) Ask yourself if your sacrifice is Biblical?


How ya’ livin’?!!!!

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