Healed

Have you sacrificed yourself for someone else? Have you given up doing something you prefer to do something someone else wants to do? Have you had someone sacrifice themselves for you? Have you taken notice of their sacrifice? Have you acknowledged God’s sacrifice?

If you are a good parent, you have sacrificed for your children. We sacrifice for them quite often and in many different ways. Some parents forgo eating so their children can eat. Some do not buy new clothes for themselves for years to buy new clothes for their children.

Parental sacrifice is expected, even if the new parents have not realized it yet. By the time our children are a few years old, it becomes the normal thing to do. It becomes such a large part of our lives that we are unsure what to do when they grow up and move out of the house. But often we continue sacrificing for them. Our sacrifice has simply taken on a different form.

God made a major sacrifice for us. The Son, Jesus Christ, came down from heaven in the form of a human and sacrificed His life so that we may have eternal life. When we accept Him as our Lord and Savior, we accept His sacrifice. We are made righteous by His sacrifice. We are healed of our sickness—the sickness of sin. We often say we are forgiven, which is true. Perhaps the better way to think of it is to think of sin as the worst possible, most deadly cancer, and we have been cured. Maybe, just maybe, then we would appreciate what we have been rescued from.

I pray we all know what it means to sacrifice. I pray we know that Jesus sacrificed Himself for us. I pray each one of us understands that by Jesus’s sacrifice we are healed of our worst disease. Know sacrifice. Know Jesus sacrificed Himself for you. Understand you have been healed by Jesus’s sacrifice.

1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.