occupy

Do you realize that you received the benefit of my sacrifice for you as something you could never repay? I’m not asking you to repay it, but does your gratitude toward me make you want to offer a sacrifice in return? What would be the greatest thing you could give? Are you prepared to die for me? To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Yet I ask something much more difficult of you. It is easy to depart and hard to remain, but you are called to be a living sacrifice, a living testimony in this world to the beauty and wonder of the Kingdom of God. That is your true home, but I want you to occupy here till I come.