Dr. Helen Roseveare on in her book Living Sacrifice (thank you Kelly) I was asked to write a book for students on the subject of “Sacrifice.” As I prayed and studied around this topic, I became increasingly aware that the word sacrifice could only truly be employed in direct reference to our Lord Jesus Christ, who suffered “death upon the cross for our redemption: who made there (by His one oblation of Himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world” (Anglican Book of Common Prayer). We, God’s children by adoption, have the privilege to respond, in overwhelming gratitude and love, by rendering to Him “spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God” (1 Pet. 2:5). We are exhorted to present ourselves to Him as living sacrifices (see Rom. 12:1), renouncing all other claims, that we may love Him utterly with all we have and are, not only in spirit, but also in the emotional, volitional, intellectual, material and physical aspects of our beings. My heart’s hunger is to respond thus to an ever greater degree: and together with my readers, to press on toward maturity in being made conformable to our Master.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:49:33 +0000
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