Our heroes in the faith were also human, and they needed to recharge too.

Here’s how they did it when they were running on empty:

NOAH

After the flood dried up and everyone exited the ark, Noah sacrificed to the Lord. He built an altar. Then he took some of ALL the clean animals and birds and sacrificed them (presumably the animals had mated on the high seas!)

ABRAHAM

Once Abraham arrived in the land God would give his descendants, he built an altar to God there. After God fulfilled his long-awaited promise to Abraham by giving him Isaac, a son, Abraham was tested at an altar. He surrendered ALL God’s wonderful gift, preparing to sacrifice Isaac. God gave him a ram to sacrifice instead.

JACOB

Remembering God’s revealing at Bethel in a distressing time (AKA his brother trying to kill him after he snuck the birthright away,) Jacob built an altar.

MOSES

Post “Let my people go,” while Moses was leading a stubborn people through the wilderness, he gave God’s law to the people. Part of the law? Building altars. Offering sacrifices. Moses himself spent a lot of time during that trying period personally before God in the holy place, offering himself to God’s service.

When we’re running low on faith-fuel, sacrifice doesn’t seem like what we need to get recharged. But it is.
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Maybe it’s a bit like spring cleaning- everything has to come out of the cabinet before it can be clean, organized, and put back in right order. Perhaps it’s similar to when our cars get an oil change- the system has to be drained of impurities first.

I’m not sure of the exact equation, but it seems in Scripture that God fills us up when we come and empty out before Him.
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As you read, write, pray, and connect through this linkup (and life!) today, I pray you take the time to hand it all over to the Lord.

Somehow, the burden’s always lighter once we’ve laid it on His altar again.

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