To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. (Proverbs 21:3, NIV 1984).
My Musings – A modern day “proverb” says “it is easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission.” It may be easier, but it is wrong. So, there might be some who would say that it is easier to offer sacrifices than it is to do what is right and just in the first place. It might be easier, but it is not acceptable. For there was only one sacrifice that was acceptable to God for all the unrighteous and unjust things mankind has done. More than acceptable.
My Advice – “Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore, God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:5–11, NIV 1984).
Exalted to the highest place. Given a name above every name. Every knee will bow, and tongue will confess. That’s just a long-drawn-out way of saying that His sacrifice was acceptable. There was also something pretty significant that happened between the “even death on the cross” and the “therefore” in the above text. The resurrection, of course. Yeah, there’s that.
If His sacrifice was acceptable to God, it should be acceptable to us. We acknowledge it by confessing Jesus Christ as Lord. It is the only “right and just” thing to do. Now is the time. Later, when every tongue confesses, it will be too late.
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