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Worship entails Sacrifice (An Exhortation)


Last Tuesday, we had our Cell Group meeting. Our point of discussion was about Sacrifice. We were sharing what are the sacrifices we can offer so that it may enrich the lives of others, in our family, our work and the community we are in. I felt it was a productive and fruitful discussion as it drives us away from ourselves for once and focus on living sacrificially for others more instead.

In a similar sense, whenever we have a community gathering such as today, as I approach worship time, I like to put into heart what St. Paul wrote to the Romans in the very 1st verse of Chapter 12: “I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.”

Worship entails we sacrifice something. Without sacrifice, we are merely venerating or adoring somebody like we do the saints or our Blessed Mother Mary. If you are in a bad day of coming here today (where your heart and your body are in two opposite spectrum), I wish to tell you to take heart, everyone around here today is already fulfilling a sacrifice for our Lord even just by your mere presence, regardless of your emotional state. And I invite you all to have that mindset and try properly disposing ourselves to worship due to God and God alone by offering ourselves as a living sacrifice, through our presence, through our songs of praise.

EXHORTATION 2017-11-5

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