Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions. Tell
God you are ready to be offered as a sacrifice for Him. Then accept the
consequences as they come, without any complaints, in spite of what God
may send your way. God sends you through a crisis in private, where no
other person can help you. From the outside your life may appear to be
the same, but the difference is taking place in your will. Once you have
experienced the crisis in your will, you will take no thought of the
cost when it begins to affect you externally. If you don’t deal with God
on the level of your will first, the result will be only to arouse
sympathy for yourself.
“Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar” (Psalm 118:27).
You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire;
willing to experience what the altar represents-burning, purification,
and separation for only one purpose-the elimination of every desire and
affection not grounded in or directed toward God. But you don’t
eliminate it, God does. You “bind the sacrifice . . . to the horns of
the altar” and see to it that you don’t wallow in self-pity once the
fire begins. After you have gone through the fire, there will be nothing
that will be able to trouble or depress you. When another crisis
arises, you will realize that things cannot touch you as they used to
do. What fire lies ahead in your life?
Tell God you are ready to be poured out as an offering, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
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