A Sacrfirce Of Song

It is amazing how excited we get when we get a personal invitation. Today when spam, chain letters, unsolicited ads, and so much other generic information is sent to us via email, regular mail, or presented to us via the phone, we really enjoy a personal note. If it is hand written it is even more special. Even if our personal mail is not a invitation, we all like to get personal messages, cards, and/or letters. These things are some of the pleasant things that make life more valuable and worth living.

God knows this about us. He knows we love personal correspondence. He knows that we need and thrive on personal attention and personal contact. Humans are social beings. We flounder when we are cut off from contact from others. God’s solution was simple, yet He was the only one that could accomplish it. He personally invited us to be intimately involved with Him and He with us.

He did this via His son Jesus who died for our sins. This sacrifice also allowed the Holy Spirit to begin participating in our lives and in our activities. This personal invitation from God is what makes our relationship with Him so special. Each of us can and do access God individually. He does not speak to us as a group, He speaks to us individually. This personal and individual correspondence calls each of us to act in special and unique ways to accomplish His work and His wills. These private messages also give us daily guidance on where to go, what to do, and gives us hints about what our future holds.

His call to us to follow Him was not found on a bill board for the world. It was an intimate call made inside our heart and soul. His ways are not taught to us via a daily media broadcast. His ways and lessons are burned into our heart and soul via His word, His leading, His use of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and by Him using others to teach us the wisdom that they have learned from Him.

God has always desired to interact with His creation, i.e US. Before sin entered the world, the Bible tells us that He walked and talked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. He desired to know them personally. He wanted to be a key and integral part of their daily lives. Once sin entered the world, by the choice of man not by the choice of God remember, God could no longer personally interact with Adam and Eve. This is because God can not be in the presence of sin. At that time, God could have abandoned us and left us to our own devices, yet He still desired to be with us. If He was not fully God then He could not accomplish this. If He was less then fully God, He could not have continued contact with us, but God was prepared for the situation.

In fact, God had always been aware of the fact that Adam and Eve would sin, so He had a plan to continue personally interacting with His people and His creation. In the Old Testament He did this view visions, the law, priests, and sin sacrifices, however, His ultimate plan was to restore a closer relationship with us. To do this required Him to follow the plan that He had begun at the beginning of time. He had to sacrifice His only son - Jesus. By doing this a perfect and final sacrifice could be accomplished that would pay for all the sins of the world.

Jesus was sent by God where God could get to know you personally. Without Jesus you have no means of directly accessing God. The sin you have in your life creates a division or gap that is unable to be crossed or bridged between you and God. Jesus came where that gap could be bridged and where you and God could meet personally. Once that was done, God could personally get to know you because Jesus acts as a intercessor between you and God. Now, God can be personally involved with you and can be the one who personally cares for your successes and failures. God’s invitation to get to know you personally was written on a roman cross nearly 2000 years ago in the pain and suffering of His only son’s death.

This invitation is the most precious note or letter that you will ever receive. It is not to be thrown in the trash along with junk mail, spam, and unsolicited sales calls. Yet, we consistently waste more time with junk mail, spam and sales calls then we do pursuing a relationship with God who personally invites us to be with Him. Our priorities are driven more by our schedule and our lifestyle then they are by concepts of what is really important or what is really key to our lives.

How revolutionary would it be if we stopped think of Jesus as only a sacrifice (which He was), but thought of Him as a sacrifice that was a personal invitation to us to be with Him. He was not sacrificed to become a martyr. God sacrificed His son where we would have a savior. Today take the time to thank God for His personal invitation to be with Him in Heaven. Thank God for the personal sacrifice He made when He sent His son to bridge the gap between yourself and Him. Thank God for His daily interest in your life, for the interest He has in your future, and the interest He has in directing your path. He loves and cares for you and He wants you to know Him better then you do today. Accept His invitation to get to know Him better. Begin to today to pray for new wisdom, new faith, new hope and new directions for your life. Let God show you all He has for you and all He wants you to be. His invitation is waiting, RSVP Him today.

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	It is amazing how excited we get when we get a personal invitation. Today when spam, chain letters, unsolicited ads, and so much other generic information is sent to us via email, regular mail, or presented to us via the phone, we really enjoy a personal note. If it is hand written it is even more special. Even if our personal mail is not a invitation, we all like to get personal messages, cards, and/or letters. These things are some of the pleasant things that make life more valuable and worth living. God knows this about us. He knows we love personal correspondence. He knows that we need and thrive on personal attention and personal contact. Humans are social beings. We flounder when we are cut off from contact from others. God’s solution was simple, yet He was the only one that could accomplish it. He personally invited us to be intimately involved with Him and He with us. He did this via His son Jesus who died for our sins. This sacrifice also allowed the Holy Spirit to begin participating in our lives and in our activities. This personal invitation from God is what makes our relationship with Him so special. Each of us can and do access God individually. He does not speak to us as a group, He speaks to us individually. This personal and individual correspondence calls each of us to act in special and unique ways to accomplish His work and His wills. These private messages also give us daily guidance on where to go, what to do, and gives us hints about what our future holds. His call to us to follow Him was not found on a bill board for the world. It was an intimate call made inside our heart and soul. His ways are not taught to us via a daily media broadcast. His ways and lessons are burned into our heart and soul via His word, His leading, His use of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and by Him using others to teach us the wisdom that they have learned from Him. God has always desired to interact with His creation, i.e US. Before sin entered the world, the Bible tells us that He walked and talked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. He desired to know them personally. He wanted to be a key and integral part of their daily lives. Once sin entered the world, by the choice of man not by the choice of God remember, God could no longer personally interact with Adam and Eve. This is because God can not be in the presence of sin. At that time, God could have abandoned us and left us to our own devices, yet He still desired to be with us. If He was not fully God then He could not accomplish this. If He was less then fully God, He could not have continued contact with us, but God was prepared for the situation. In fact, God had always been aware of the fact that Adam and Eve would sin, so He had a plan to continue personally interacting with His people and His creation. In the Old Testament He did this view visions, the law, priests, and sin sacrifices, however, His ultimate plan was to restore a closer relationship with us. To do this required Him to follow the plan that He had begun at the beginning of time. He had to sacrifice His only son - Jesus. By doing this a perfect and final sacrifice could be accomplished that would pay for all the sins of the world. Jesus was sent by God where God could get to know you personally. Without Jesus you have no means of directly accessing God. The sin you have in your life creates a division or gap that is unable to be crossed or bridged between you and God. Jesus came where that gap could be bridged and where you and God could meet personally. Once that was done, God could personally get to know you because Jesus acts as a intercessor between you and God. Now, God can be personally involved with you and can be the one who personally cares for your successes and failures. God’s invitation to get to know you personally was written on a roman cross nearly 2000 years ago in the pain and suffering of His only son’s death. This invitation is the most precious note or letter that you will ever receive. It is not to be thrown in the trash along with junk mail, spam, and unsolicited sales calls. Yet, we consistently waste more time with junk mail, spam and sales calls then we do pursuing a relationship with God who personally invites us to be with Him. Our priorities are driven more by our schedule and our lifestyle then they are by concepts of what is really important or what is really key to our lives. How revolutionary would it be if we stopped think of Jesus as only a sacrifice (which He was), but thought of Him as a sacrifice that was a personal invitation to us to be with Him. He was not sacrificed to become a martyr. God sacrificed His son where we would have a savior. Today take the time to thank God for His personal invitation to be with Him in Heaven. Thank God for the personal sacrifice He made when He sent His son to bridge the gap between yourself and Him. Thank God for His daily interest in your life, for the interest He has in your future, and the interest He has in directing your path. He loves and cares for you and He wants you to know Him better then you do today. Accept His invitation to get to know Him better. Begin to today to pray for new wisdom, new faith, new hope and new directions for your life. Let God show you all He has for you and all He wants you to be. His invitation is waiting, RSVP Him today. Proverbs 18:24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."