OUR FATHER TO WHOM WE MUST FULLY COMMIT OUR LIVES

Isaiah chapter 66 verse 3 says this;

But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a person, and whoever offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig’s blood, and whoever burns memorial incense is like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations;

This verse captures the deleterious effect of the people of God choosing to go their own way. They have the knowledge of the things required by the Lord but they only do things on their own terms and they are delighted by things which displease God.

When they do undertake to carry out ceremonial sacrifices out of religious tradition, their actions translate into the spiritual realm in a sinister way and register as insults instead of sacrifices.

For example, if people who live unconstrained by the Lord sacrifice a bull to Him, it resonates the same as murdering a person would.

Or, if they make an offering of grain, it is as though they were presenting pig's blood to Him.

Such is the effect of trying to uphold religious traditions while being beholden to our own agenda and to carnality.

Let us be sincere before the Lord that our offerings to the Lord are always acceptable.

Amen.

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