No sacrifice
Jason Upton

To you I give my life
Not just the parts I want to
To You I sacrifice
These dreams that I hold onto

(Chorus)
Your thoughts are higher than mine
Your words are deeper than mine
Your love is stronger than mine
This is no sacrifice, here’s my life

To You I give the gifts
Your love has given me
How can I hoard the treasures
That You designed for free?

(Chorus)

To You I give my future
As long as it may last
To You I give my present
To You I give my past

"We are now in your hands. Do to us whatever it seems good and right to do."

~ Joshua 9:25

“For the creation was subject to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.”
~ Rom. 8:20 – 21

Have you ever been hit with revelations about yourself that you didn’t want to hear and didn’t want to face? Well, God is opening my eyes to things that still live inside of me that are not from Him and do not glorify Him, and in fact, do the opposite! To be quite honest, it’s really hard to face that these things still live in me and everything in me wants to say, “Nah! It’s not that big of a deal. Don’t worry about it!” But, a revelation from the Creator of the entire universe is quite a BIG DEAL indeed!

I’m not going to go into all of it, after all, this is a public blogsite! But, here’s the thing that mystifies me – even though it’s frustrating and it’s painful to go through and completely not something that I even want to deal with, God is showing me this stuff so I “. . . will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom . . .” He wants me to live in complete freedom as His very own child! And, I’m not walking through this alone. He’s covering me in grace and mercy as He shows me all this stuff AND His arms of strength and LOVE are wrapped completely around me in protection – NOT CONDEMNATION! So, really, who’s losing? Not God, not me!

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
~ Rom. 8:28

That can’t be a bad promise! I guess I just need to change my perspective about His revelations. Josiah gave an incredible message last night about being authentic. One thing that he talked about was that God only wants us to come to Him. He’s not going to get mad at us for coming to Him with our sin and shame. He sees it already, why wouldn’t we just admit our brokenness? Thinking about it, it sounds kinda ridiculous, actually . . .