SACRIFICE

Blessed is the Lamb that came into the world to be slaughtered. What a sacrifice, what a surrender to love. Only love can surrender to such a destiny. He knew before He came that this would be His destiny, yet He willingly submitted to His Father’s will. He said not my will but thine be done. In this He surrendered to Him who knew the end from the beginning. He willingly embraced suffering knowing that it was His mission on earth to accomplish. Only the spotless sinless Lamb of God could do this. You also have been called to suffer for the sake of the gospel that many may enter through the narrow gate to eternal freedom. This kind of love is of the Father in heaven. He wants us to be filled with His love so that other kinds of love cannot take His place. His love is unconditional pure and holy. His love heals all disorder and disease and brings wholeness. How does this fit in with the western presentation of the gospel which seeks to satisfy the flesh rather then the spirit? No wonder you see the excesses and the falling away when those props are removed. A gospel without the suffering Christ will not last. The Cross is central and all the benefits that flow from it are secondary. Focus on the Cross and be delivered for the world and its temptations. The apostle Paul said it well when he said I glory only in the Cross. This is to die daily to the flesh so that His Spirit can fill to the maximum my being.