Commit Yourself

Father, here our prayer tonight. We suffer for You in our lives; we rejoice for You in our lives; we strive to love everyone for You. Every effort we have, every attempt we make, every thing we do, may it only be done so that glory will be given to You. We want to understand You because we want to honor You. We don't understand You because you are so much greater than us. We pray today for love to lavished on all Christian's Father, that Your heart would have mercy and grace on them. We also pray for unbelievers, that you would change there hearts, because you have the ability to do so. In Jesus name, Amen.

Do you ever wonder why the Bible talks about wanting Christians to sacrifice their lives to God? Surely it couldn't mean that we are supposed to kill ourselves for the sake of Christ. Oh, my friend, but it does. We are indeed to sacrifice ourselves; to kill ourselves off that we may finally live with Christ. We are not supposed to kill our body, but who we once were. We are to kill off all unrighteousness and evil for the sake of Christ, this is what it means to truly sacrifice yourself to God.

Christian's are to live in such a way that represents that we have sacrificed part of who we are. If someone has cut off their arm, are you going to notice? Yes. How much more easy would it be to notice if someone sacrificed there very person! It will be noticeable when we have killed off the flesh, and have begun to live in the spirit. For no man can come to God in the flesh, "no one in the flesh can please God". Only by the grace of God, in the spirit, can man finally come to God. And only when God puts a clean spirit in you will you begin to change.

For we are all born with an indwelling evil spirit "none is righteous, no, not one." The only way that this spirit can be killed is by the grace of God and the only way we can get a clean spirit is also by the grace of God. Man must always have a spirit to remain a man. The difference between the believer and the unbeliever is the cleanliness of their spirit; not based off their deeds, but based off who the sacrifice was. For the believer, the sacrifice must be Jesus; for the unbeliever, even if he sacrifices his soul, it is not enough, for it is unclean. God only receives perfect sacrifices, therefore, man needs Jesus.

Remember always my friends, the grace of God is the only way to God. Never rest on the imperfect grace of man to get to God, but rest in the arms of God and he will change you. Such an act is the only acceptable sacrifice to God. May we cry out to the Father with Jesus,

"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!"