Two More Forms of Sacrifices

The Apostle Paul continued, "To do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." Heb. 13:16. Here are two more forms of sacrifices a Christian may and should offer to God. He is to do good. This covers a great field, for in many ways he may do good. He is to "do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." Gal. 6:10. It may be in helping a sick one who needs assistance—either one of the Lord's, or perhaps an unsaved one where we may have opportunity to witness for Christ. We shall not enlarge on the great possibilities which this acceptable form of sacrifice offers. May we have an ear attuned to hear Him direct us in ways and places to so serve Him. Perhaps no one will know about it besides the one helped and the Lord. But that is all the better, for then our treacherous hearts shall not have opportunity to glory in it.
The next in order are the words, "and to communicate forget not," that is, to distribute of our money or of our goods to others, for this also is well-pleasing to the Lord. We know Israel of old was required to tithe, that is, to give a tenth of their increase to the Lord. Now there is no such word for Christians. Why? Simply because we are not now under the law and commanded to do something. We are under grace and lordship. What we render to God of our temporal things should be done as the overflow of a full heart, a heart that is enjoying all that grace has wrought for us. In the matter of lordship, we are to remember that we are no longer our own; we and all we have belong to another. The Lord has purchased us and we are His. A poet has expressed it thus:
Naught that I have my own I call,
I hold it for the Giver;
My heart, my strength, my life, my all,
Are His, and His forever.

David said to God, "Of Thine own have we given Thee," when they had offered generously for the building of the temple (1 Chron. 29:14). P. Wilson