The idea of sacrifice is an interesting one. Biblically there was a lot of ritual and specific requirements surrounding sacrifice. I’m some ways I think it may have been easier, at least it was more straightforward. If you have a baby you go to the temple and offer a sacrifice in thanks. If you need to make a sim offering you get two turtle doves or a kid or whatever is specified and you make a sacrifice. So there you go.
Today we don’t sacrifice by the shedding of blood. The sacrifice the Lord wants is that if a broken heart and a contrite spirit. What does that look like?
I think it looks like humility. It looks like serving others. It looks like doing what the Lord wants, not what you want. It looks like being patient and cheerful and selflessly.
We sacrifice a lot but we get back a whole lot more.
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