Numbers 7:23 · World English Bible
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.
Sacrifice is the discovery that the future can be bargained with, and the peace offering is where a man acts on that discovery deliberately. He brings the oxen and the rams and the unblemished lambs of the first year, the strongest and youngest of what he owns, and he surrenders them.
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Sacrifice is the discovery that the future can be bargained with, and the peace offering is where a man acts on that discovery deliberately. He brings the oxen and the rams and the unblemished lambs of the first year, the strongest and youngest of what he owns, and he surrenders them. Nobody surrenders the runt. The whole meaning lives in giving up the best of the present so that something better might come.
Each leader is named and each portion is counted, because the offering is personal and exact. A man is what he is willing to relinquish. The lambs of the first year are his first increase, the part hardest to release, and releasing them is how he tells reality he trusts it. Give up what you value most, on purpose, and you have made a covenant with tomorrow.
Clinical Psychology lens
What is the best thing you own that you would never think of giving away?
Offer your best work and its fruit rather than the leftovers. What you hold back is what still holds you.
The seed must be given to the ground and lost before anything grows. Those who keep the seed keep only the seed.
Yield what you clutch and you gain what you could not grasp. The one who refuses to lose anything never comes into fullness.
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