Sacrifice of good works

 

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. – Hebrews 13.15-16

 

Yesterday we looked at two ‘spiritual’ ways to offer God sacrifices, praise and thanksgiving. The next two part of this are a bit more practical – doing good and sharing. The truth test of our faith comes in the doing and the true test of our love is doing good and sharing with others.

 

God has ordained that those who are His children will do good works. We can’t be saved and not good. We cannot be saved without an open and sharing heart and open and sharing actions. He ordained that we would do good works. 

 

God is not looking for a sacrifice of bulls or goats or incense or any of those things. All He wants out of us is to praise Him and be thankful and do good and the have a part in the loves of others. We don’t need to be superstars or heroes. All we have to do is be decent people.

Our works couldn’t save us – but they sure do impact our testimony to others. It’s really not that much of a sacrifice, is it? Can we do good? Can we share with others? That is our calling.