This week I heard the simplest and coolest message I have heard in a long time. A local pastor came to chapel. He had everyone do three simple hand motions: a heart, an equal sign, and cupped hands that are giving something away. With them, he had the tag line "Love equals sacrifice". The message went something like this...
When we love something, we sacrifice for it. When we love a guy or girl, we sacrifice time and money, friends and other things in order to spend time with and invest in that other person. Because we love them, we sacrifice for them. Our parents know this, and that is what they fear when we say we love someone; they are afraid of what we will sacrifice. This principle plays out in other areas of our lives too. If we love basketball, we sacrifice our time, our weekends, our physical bodies will even taken a beating for our love of the game. Whatever we love, we sacrifice for it. God gets this concept too. John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave..." He loved so much, He gave the ultimate sacrifice.
So the question is: we say we love God. We say it all the time, but if we do love God, what are we sacrificing for Him?
Deep conviction landed with this simple question: What am I sacrificing for this God that I say I love?
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