Sacrifice

When the Red Sox came to the last game of the World Series, my oldest granddaughter, who just turned eleven, said she would give up ice cream for a month if they won. I'm sure this is not a theology she has been taught, propitiating the baseball gods, or bargaining with the actual God for things that she wants.  However, I think it is a common and natural thing in human beings.  It is not built into everyone, but I think it is hard-wired into a lot of us. Offering a sacrifice springs forth from us automatically. The Old Testament rules about this were not given to create this impulse in us, but to direct it and explain it.