Making
a choice. Choosing not what I want. Dying to your yourself.
Sacrificing myself for the good of the other. Intimacy has a price.
Some
people accept Jesus as savior but not Lord because they don't want to
sacrifice their lifestyle. But He only comes as a package deal; we
can't have one without the other. Let me just say it: You can't be a
follower of Jesus if you're sleeping with your boyfriend or
girlfriend. At least not for long. He loves you too much to wink at
compromise, to tolerate what's really hurting you.
But
beyond just basic holiness, intimacy takes effort. Like fasting,
getting up early, staying up late, doing whatever it takes to get
away by yourself – just you and him. Like David in 2 Samuel 24:24, we can't
sacrifice to the Lord something that costs us nothing, because if it costs us nothing then it's not a sacrifice.
But
that one-on-one time with him is more precious than anything we have
to sacrifice for it. You get to the point where you get ruined, where
it's like breathing. I guess you can technically exist without it,
but you can't live without it.
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