It's Payback Time!

Psalm 66:15-16
15 I will sacrifice fat animals to you
and an offering of rams;
I will offer bulls and goats.
16 Come and hear, all you who fear God;
let me tell you what he has done for me.

When I think of everything that God has ever done for me and compare it to everything I do for Him I think of the scale in the science center of a preschool classroom. The children would load one end with rocks (what God has done for us) and the other side with plastic counting bears (what we do for God). God's gifts weigh more than we can ever imagine or compare to. Anything we do for Him will never be as much as what He has done for us. Now to make it even deeper. God sacrificed His son for us His only son.

Abraham was a serious man of God and only ever wanted to please God. He had a great heart and even though he messed up a couple times he still devoted his life to God completely. Everyone knows Abraham couldn't have a son ... and that God provided Abraham with a son it was a miracle. Issac his son grew up to be a boy any father would be proud of. Abraham was very proud to be a father and I'm sure it delighted him very much to have someone who he helped to birth into the world. Well, God told Abraham to sacrifice Issac to Him. Abraham didn't complain or anything because he knew that Issac was God's to take. Abraham obeyed God and was about to sacrifice his one and only son. The son God had blessed him with. Thankfully God at the last minute provided a ram for Abraham to sacrifice instead. Isaac must have known how much value his life had. Isaac would have been a more valuable sacrifice then the ram but God had different plans for Isaac. God wanted to use Isaac's life as a sacrifice instead. Isaac through his salvation devoted his life to God.

That ram for us was Jesus just when we are on the edge of the pit of fire God provided Jesus so we would not have to burn. Because Jesus' sacrifice was so valuable it covered everyone. Anyone who calls on the name of Jesus and asks for Him to enter into their lives will be freed from having to burn in the fire eternally. Instead we now can sacrifice our lives to God.

So how valuable is your sacrifice? Are you giving God your all? Christ gave His all for us even when He was alive He helped heal people and feed them spiritually and physically. Jesus washed peoples feet even though it beneath his call of duty. There were no limitations to the sacrifices Jesus' made. So let's not limit our sacrifices. Let's give our all.

Romans 5:8
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.