Spiritual Sacrifice

What’s more, you are his holy priests.  Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God.  1 Peter 2:5b

I never feel either holy or priestly, so Peter’s words here seem odd to me.  And what is a spiritual sacrifice that pleases God?  I’m not sure.  Rob Bell tells me “Everything is Spiritual” but it doesn’t feel that way to me very often.

On what I thought was a completely different note, there are some kids that park at our church on school days because for academic or disciplinary reasons they aren’t allowed to park  at the high school a half mile down the road.  Every now and then a few guys and I will make a little run at inviting this fluid population of teenagers to church.  Yesterday, I felt the urge to stick an invitation on their windshield this morning.  So I banged out a quick note and made copies last night, but it was foggy, misty and rainy this morning and I figured I’d just skip it….. 

This is where the verse intersected with my life.  It’s not like I heard the voice of God or anything, but then I felt like that was just giving up too easy.  So a few minutes ago I folded the notes, stuffed each into a ziplock baggy, drove to church and put one on all 21 cars in the parking lot.

I’m not attempting in any way to pat myself on the back here, because what I did wasn’t much at all.  But for me, just this morning, I really feel like that was the “spiritual sacrifice” I could offer, even if it wasn’t particularly spiritual.  I get a lot of things badly wrong and I can never completely trust my heart, but I believe and hope I did this small obedience as a tiny sacrifice to please Him and bring honor to Jesus Christ.  I mention it only to encourage you to look for YOUR  sacrifice today.