Oops

I made a pretty significant mistake in my early morning post about a suitable sacrifice.  It is a natural enough one to fall into, and a very common one, which I always make it a point to address when I encounter it.  I guess it was because I was riding my thought train in one direction that I didn't see this lurking.

We talk all the time about "what God wants from us," and I did the same at one point in this post. But because of the fully self-sufficient and perfectly loving nature of God, the truth is that God never wants anything from us.  Rather, it is always a matter of what God wants for us.  This is invariably a greater good than whatever we want for ourselves. The nature of sacrifice, then, is to give up what isn't perfect for us, no matter how wonderful we might perceive it to be, for the sake of what is.