FEBRUARY 13
OVER A SACRIFICE
“Gather ye to Me My saints, making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.” (Psalm
50:6, Young’s Literal)
Covenant - a Hebrew word that means – a league, an eating. It speaks of
partaking together, that vital COMMUNION, “He that eateth My flesh and drinketh
My blood”, so partaking of Him that our life is changed and merged into one with
His life. Such a covenant can only be made over a sacrifice. Many have made
their vows, their covenants with God, only to break them in due time. He had
blessed them and they rejoiced and made their vows, but as time passes the world
draws them into its mesh, and they forget the vow they made unto the Lord.
Therefore, this covenant is made OVER A SACRIFICE. It is painful, it goes deep
into the marrow of our being, and it costs us everything. Just as that merchant
went seeking goodly pearls, and finding that pearl of great price, went and sold
all that he had to buy that pearl, so also it will cost us everything of self;
our ego, our own will, ambitions, plans, wishes. All is laid out before Him,
consumed upon the altar of sacrifice. Indeed, we come to know what it means to
offer ourselves “a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable
service,” (Romans 12:1).
Betimes, we have offered up to Him our strengths, talents, and abilities, that
He might use them in glad service. It was to the Lord, yes, but I dare say we
also enjoyed it; self took its portion of the glory. Then He stripped us of all
the gifts and graces wherein we rejoiced, and we offer up to Him our weaknesses,
it is all we have left to give, and on the altar it goes, Broken, yes, “the
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God,
Thou wilt not despise,” (Ps. 51:17). We see the vision of a broken alabaster
box, with its perfume pervading the atmosphere, for there are those fallen on
the Stone, broken, and there they made a covenant with God to manifest only
Christ.
Ray Prinzing
Sister Doris Prinzing
1130 Allumbaugh St. Apt 257
Boise, Id 83704-8700
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