February 6th — ARE YOU READY TO BE OFFERED?
February 6th.ARE YOU READY TO BE OFFERED?
"I am already being poured out as a drink offering." 2 Timothy 4:6 (R. V. Marg.)
"I am ready to be offered." It is a transaction of wil , not of sentiment. Tell God you are ready to be offered; then let the consequences be what they may, there is no strand of complaint now, no matter what God chooses. God puts you through the crisis in private, no one person can help an other. External y the life may be the same; the difference is in wil . Go through the crisis in wil , then when it comes external y there wil he no thought of the cost. If you do not transact in wil with God along this line, you wil end in awakening sympathy for yourself.
"Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar." The altar means fire - burning and purification and insulation for one purpose only, the destruction of every affinity that God has not started and of every attachment that is not an attachment in God. You do not destroy it, God does; you bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar; and see that you do not give way to self-pity when the fire begins. After this way of fire, there is nothing that oppresses or depresses. When the crisis arises, you realize that things cannot touch you as they used to do. What is your way of fire?
Tel God you are ready to be offered, and God wil prove Himself to be al you ever dreamed He would be.