First, everything is a gift. Second, there are several kinds of offerings that I can make to God. Or, we could say that we want to think about an offering as a sacrifice, and when I use the word sacrifice with regard to my own life, the emphasis is not on loss and desolation and giving up. The emphasis is on the fact that God has given me something that I can offer back to Him. We’ll come to that a little bit later. And third, the greatest, is the offering of obedience.
