Sacrifice

I think I started chickening out on the whole blog thing, but I realize that it is incredibily theraputic. Regardless of whether I share the link with anyone or not it is good for me. It seems God is really pressing upon me the idea of sacrifice lately. Not that He is requiring it of me...yet, but that I feel His gentle nudging. Urging if you will. The first incident was at Bible Study this week. We are just finishing up a Beth Moore study on Daniel and she spent over half of the time going over sacrifice and how in the book of Daniel Satan's way of turning the people away from God was to get them to become possessive and to stop sacrificing. As I asked God to help me to be more aware of the areas that He is asking me to make sacrifices in and to take the things He wants if I am unwilling or being disobedient, I clearly heard Him reply, "That is not a sacrifice. A sacrifice isn't me taking...it is you giving."