Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honour me; to those who go the right way I will show the salvation of God. (Psalm 50:23)

A sacrifice of thanksgiving will transform live flesh into fresh meat. It is a bloody slaughter of something we might prefer to keep but need to kill. To sacrifice is to change the ordinary into the sacred.

Rather than sacrifice something of external value, we are told to sacrifice our selves. The sacred cow is killed. But a dead carcass is beside the point.

A sacrifice of thanksgiving exchanges our own sense of control for an acknowledgement of being in relationship with God. In thanksgiving we exchange the illusion of control for the reality of love.

Above is Sacrifice by Emmanuel Jegede.