Have you considered what it means to be redeemed?
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers,” (1 Peter 1:18).
God has given us the choicest thing he had—a Redeemer that was the power of God, and the wisdom of God; the best he had in heaven, his own Son, and in himself, a sacrifice for us, that we might be enabled to present ourselves as a sacrifice to him. And Christ offered himself for us, the best he had, and that with the strength of the Deity through the eternal Spirit; and shall we grudge God the best part of ourselves?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” (John 3:16).
As God would have worship from his creature, so it must be with the best part of his creature. If we have, “given ourselves to the Lord,” (2 Cor. 8:5), we can worship with no less than ourselves. What is the man without his spirit? If we are to worship God with all that we have received from him, we must worship him with the best part we have received from him; it is but a small glory we can give him with the best, and shall we deprive him of his right by giving him the worst? As what we are is from God, so what we are ought to be for God. Creation is the foundation of worship. Psalm 100:2-3, “Serve the Lord with gladness; know ye that the Lord he is God; it is he that has made us.” Since our end was to glorify God, we do not answer our end, and do not honor him, unless we give him the choicest we have. Stephen Charnock, A Christian’s True Spiritual Worship to Jesus Christ.
