Sacrifice
Reading: Matthew 5:3-12
“Blessed are the meek” (Mt 5:5)
When thousands are praising your masterpiece and one criticizes it, if you acknowledge that voice humbly — that’s sacrifice.
When an enquiry is made of a blunder and you are the culprit, if no one knows it is you, if you can lift up your hand — that’s sacrifice.
If you can willingly step down from any honour and privilege in order to follow the will of God — that’s sacrifice.
If there is a secret about your enemy which will degrade, defame and destroy her and if you can keep it to yourself — that’s sacrifice.
If you make a big mistake and are rebuked sharply, if you take courage and attempt to do it again rightly — that’s sacrifice.
If you can do a thing very well and yet if you are being instructed like a zombie and if you can take it in silence without getting irritated — that’s sacrifice.
If you have done a very great help to someone and that has to be kept a secret, if you don’t even hint about what you did — that’s sacrifice.
If you have counseled someone and she has refused to listen, if she suffers on account of this and comes back to you, and if you do not say, “Did I not tell you?” but embrace her — that’s sacrifice.
If you see your sister in sin and go and warn, taking the risk of earning her ill-will — that’s sacrifice.
If you leave a prosperous situation to preserve your purity — that’s sacrifice.
If you are on the right, but grossly misunderstood, if you can hold your tongue from saying, “Eternity will prove it” — that’s sacrifice.
If no one gives you the credit for something remarkable you have done, if you can keep from saying, “I did it!” —that’s sacrifice.
If you know so-and-so has greatly harmed you and she refuses to accept it, if you can still forgive and love her — that’s sacrifice.
If one loves you very much and you think that love is turning to lust and if you refuse to show him your love just to save him from sin, and for that you are grossly misunderstood — that’s sacrifice.
If you are leading a life of integrity to the best of your knowledge and if someone tells you, you won’t make it in the Second Coming, if you can bow your head and accept the verdict and examine yourself — that’s sacrifice.
Dr. Lilian Stanley
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91 9843511943
lilianstanley@gmail.com
Blessing Youth Mission
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Sacrifice
Reading: Matthew 5:3-12
“Blessed are the meek” (Mt 5:5)
When thousands are praising your masterpiece and one criticizes it, if you acknowledge that voice humbly — that’s sacrifice.
When an enquiry is made of a blunder and you are the culprit, if no one knows it is you, if you can lift up your hand — that’s sacrifice.
If you can willingly step down from any honour and privilege in order to follow the will of God — that’s sacrifice.
If there is a secret about your enemy which will degrade, defame and destroy her and if you can keep it to yourself — that’s sacrifice.
If you make a big mistake and are rebuked sharply, if you take courage and attempt to do it again rightly — that’s sacrifice.
If you can do a thing very well and yet if you are being instructed like a zombie and if you can take it in silence without getting irritated — that’s sacrifice.
If you have done a very great help to someone and that has to be kept a secret, if you don’t even hint about what you did — that’s sacrifice.
If you have counseled someone and she has refused to listen, if she suffers on account of this and comes back to you, and if you do not say, “Did I not tell you?” but embrace her — that’s sacrifice.
If you see your sister in sin and go and warn, taking the risk of earning her ill-will — that’s sacrifice.
If you leave a prosperous situation to preserve your purity — that’s sacrifice.
If you are on the right, but grossly misunderstood, if you can hold your tongue from saying, “Eternity will prove it” — that’s sacrifice.
If no one gives you the credit for something remarkable you have done, if you can keep from saying, “I did it!” —that’s sacrifice.
If you know so-and-so has greatly harmed you and she refuses to accept it, if you can still forgive and love her — that’s sacrifice.
If one loves you very much and you think that love is turning to lust and if you refuse to show him your love just to save him from sin, and for that you are grossly misunderstood — that’s sacrifice.
If you are leading a life of integrity to the best of your knowledge and if someone tells you, you won’t make it in the Second Coming, if you can bow your head and accept the verdict and examine yourself — that’s sacrifice.
Dr. Lilian Stanley
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91 9843511943
lilianstanley@gmail.com
Blessing Youth Mission
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91-416-2242943, +91-416-2248943
hq@bymonline.org
www.bymonline.org
Click here for more options
To buy books written by Dr. Lilian Stanley, kindly reach to us in the follwing address
Blessing Literature Centre
21/11 West Coovam River Road,
Chintadripet,
Chennai 600 002, India.
+91-44-28450411, Mob:8806270699
blc@bymonline.org
