Friday, December 22, 2023 Early this week I noticed this box from a Christian book company, and stopped to snap its photo. Though I can guess at the advertising instincts of the marketing department, this slogan gave me a funny feeling.
I mean, it seems to me that nowadays a lot of people aren’t focusing intensely enough on how very costly salvation has been to Heaven. Take Jesus, for one example. When He decided to arrive in human form, He sacrificed many things, as Paul reminds us in Philippians 2:5 – 8 [NKJV]:
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
Notice Jesus’ four humblings:
Death to a criminal’s death
So no—everything truly Christian is more and truer sacrifice.
Here are some other Bible texts about sacrifice: