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VOLUNTARY SACRIFICE
When a boy gets up at 4:00 in the morning to deliver papers, most people say he is a go-getter. If the church should ask that same boy to get up at 4:00 to do some work for the Lord, they would say, “That’s asking too much of the boy.” If a woman spends eight hours away from her home working in a factory or if she works in her garden, she is called an energetic wife. If however, she is willing to do the same thing for the Lord they say: “Religion has gone to her head.” If one ties himself down to making payments of thirty dollars each week for some time on an item for personal enjoyment, he pays willingly. But if that same person placed that much in the offering plate, many people would say he is crazy. This is a crazy world indeed, where first things come last and last things come first!