As a people, Christ followers are well aware of the idea of sacrifice and memorials.  Chris Brannon continues in our series talking about living a life of sacrifice.  Our eternal hope is built entirely on the fact that Jesus came for the sole purpose of giving His life away for us.

In some ways, laying down your life would be easier if it could be done in one grand gesture.  It would eliminate the ongoing challenges and questions that you must continue to be confronted with.  With each individual opportunity to serve, to  love, to sacrifice, we find ourselves in the battle between what we know Jesus would want us to do and what our selfish nature would desire.  It can feel like death by a thousand cuts.

Rather than in one single act, we are called to lay our lives down over and over again as the need arises.  It is like the difference between a single act of extreme generosity and the act of giving small amounts repeatedly  on a daily basis.