Sacrifice: A Literary Analysis

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Sacrifices are made every day, whether it is sacrificing time for children or the sacrifice of money for a friend who is in need. Many people have several different views of what sacrifices means to them. “It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about” (Niequist, 2013). Sacrifice isn’t always the killing of something, but the giving up of one’s own needs. The literary definition of sacrifice is the act of giving up something that one wants to keep, especially in order to get or do something. However, I found that sacrifice is full of pros and cons, and sacrifice is the ultimate result of love. In order to have …show more content…

Jesus Christ lived in such a way that sacrifice meant everything to him, where we as humans, live as it is a burden to make sacrifices for one another (Ultimate Sacrifice). There is no greater love that can be displayed then sacrifice; an extraordinary example would be in John 15:13,”greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (Ultimate Sacrifice). He carries the weight of our burdens; all the sins of every man, women, and child lay on his shoulders. A deeper understanding, further than his sacrificial death, was his sacrificial life that he upmost displayed all throughout the Bible (Ultimate Sacrifice). “Jesus Christ not only sacrificed his life for our sins, but He sacrificed things that most people prize as good and worthy, like ambition, wealth, prestige, position, popularity, and many other such elements of "success” ”( Ultimate Sacrifice). We, as followers of our Savior Jesus Christ, must be willing to take risk and make sacrifices for the one, true, God; it says we in John 14, “Press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Jesus Christ” (Ultimate

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