The Birds

I am glad God has called me to be a living sacrifice.

If Christ didn't incessantly (all the time, moment by moment)and patiently sacrifice my flesh and blood, I would surely not inherit the Kingdom of God.

(I COR. 15:50 - I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.)

With this verse as a back drop, I repeat, if Christ didn't persistently and incessantly cut and devour my flesh and blood I would surely not inherit the kingdom of God.

If He didn't cut away my flesh with His word of truth I'd definitely miss out on this: Revelation 21:22-27 - I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Dear Jesus, as a lonely king, who still hides behind walls of virtue to boast about my strengths and hide my weaknesses, please send me to the "gory feast of the birds, who eat up the carcasses of God's enemies (Kings of the earth are thrown into this lot - Rev 19:19-21)" (Darrell Johnson 324)

Cut away my flesh and blood. Let the birds rip apart my kingliness so that this lonely king can humbly walk by your light and your splendor.

Amen.

I Peter - "You are royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God. Once you were not a people. But now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy."