SACRIFICE THAT HURTS
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raise the Lord.
My dear brethren; we serve a God who is merciful and loving. From heaven, He
watches over us looking to see if what we do to Him is a sign of our love to Him.
Sometimes faith without action does not wholly please Him. He expects real sign
of our faith to Him.
One of my friends
while in college told me that “it is good to offer sacrifice to God through
tithe and offerings but what touches God is that sacrifice that hurts”.
I went home
thinking about those words. It is true that we cannot give God more than He has
given us. We should be assured that whatever we give to Him is a measure of our
faith to Him and it does not go unnoticed. God will remember you or your loved
one in time of need and He will protect you from ways of the evil.
Let’s turn
to the book of 1KINGS17:7-23.Reading that part we are told that the window had
little oil and flour that was only enough for her and her own son. It was
during a famine season and she even told Elijah that if she cook it for
him,,,,”then we must die”. Elijah convinced her to cook first for him. The
window offered the sacrifice that hurt by cooking for Elijah at the expense of
herself and her son.
We are told
that the jar of flour and that of oil never run empty. In addition to that,
when the son of that window died, Elijah through the help of God restored his
life once again.
May be it is
the hurting sacrifice that we will give of helping that struggling child in our
neighborhoods or helping our pastor or tithing that we make our God to heal us,
bless us abundantly and even protect us. I believe the ball is on our side and
God is waiting to see if we will give that hurting sacrifice to Him and He will
do to us more than we can ask or
imagine.
Amen!
