{"id":472514,"date":"2025-02-24T02:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=472514"},"modified":"2025-02-24T02:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T20:43:21","slug":"the-delight-of-sacrifice-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/the-delight-of-sacrifice-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Delight Of Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-49397b1fdee6a95831c345f725fb448b wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I will very gladly spend for you everything I have.<br>\u2014 2 Corinthians 12:15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the Spirit of God has filled our hearts with the love of God, we begin to identify ourselves with Jesus\u2019s interest in other people\u2014and Jesus is interested in everyone. As his disciples, we have no right to be guided by personal preferences or prejudices. The delight of sacrifice comes from laying down our lives\u2014not from carelessly flinging our lives away or giving them over to a cause but from deliberately laying them down for Jesus and his interests in others.<br>Paul laid down his life in order to win people to Jesus, not to himself. He sought to attract people to Jesus, never to himself (1 Corinthians 1:13). \u201cI have become,\u201d he wrote, \u201call things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some\u201d (9:22). To do this, Paul had to become a sacramental personality. He didn\u2019t hide away or insist on a holy life alone with God, a life in which he\u2019d be no use to others. Instead, Paul told Jesus to help himself to his life.<br>Many of us are so caught up in pursuing our own goals that Jesus can\u2019t help himself to our lives. Paul didn\u2019t have any goals of his own. \u201cI could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,\u201d he wrote (Romans 9:3). Wild, extravagant talk, isn\u2019t it? No. When a person is in love, it isn\u2019t extravagant to talk like this, and Paul was in love with Jesus Christ.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will very gladly spend for you everything I have.\u2014 2 Corinthians 12:15 When the Spirit of God has filled our hearts with the love of God, we begin to identify ourselves with Jesus\u2019s interest in other people\u2014and Jesus is interested in everyone. As his disciples, we have no right to be guided by personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}