This is just a little something I had to write for my Myth and Legend class in response to the relativistic views presented by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers in their interviews regarding The Power of Myth. I suppose it is a good place to start a new blog since it exemplifies my being. I went through about a year and a half where I was addicted to blogging, but it turned into something that I did not want it to. After that I found it impossible to blog, journal, etc…I just could not find the passion for it I once had. Well, a few years later, and I feel the Lord telling me to start writing things down again (actually, He has been for a while, but I have been ignoring Him…stupid…I know). I love the idea of keeping a journal more so than blogging, that is the romantic in me…but I am a perfectionist and find that I do not get very far when I put pen to paper as I cross out, scribble, and think at a faster pace than I can move my hand, so when I read it back I hate it, get frustrated, and quit (again, stupid). Patience is something God is challenging me with. So anywho, the following is what I wanted to share:
True sacrifice is not taking less, but becoming less, and giving more. I think many would say that nothing produces greater bliss than freedom, to which I agree. But I submit that true freedom is the willingness to sacrifice oneself, not for oneself, but for someone else. It is easy to make sacrifices for yourself because you are the reaper of the fruit of that sacrifice, but to give of yourself with no prospect of self satisfaction is true sacrifice. How do I know this? Jesus Christ is the personification of sacrifice. He made the ultimate sacrifice when He came to Earth in human form (becoming less) and laid down His life (giving more) as the ultimate sacrifice for the forgiveness of the sins of the world. The fruit of Jesus’ sacrifice is forgiveness from sin and freedom from death, and since Jesus’ lived a perfect, sinless life He is not the reaper of His sacrificial fruit, but those of us who choose to partake of it. If sacrifice is freedom, and Jesus is the personification of sacrifice, then Jesus is the personification of freedom; and if freedom produces bliss then Jesus produces bliss. So, when I think of bliss, I think of freedom; and when I think of freedom, I think of sacrifice; and when I think of sacrifice I do not think in terms of objects, but in terms of people, in terms of a person, in terms of Jesus.
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