{"id":9302,"date":"2025-05-04T13:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T17:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=9302"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:06:49","slug":"the-altar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=9302","title":{"rendered":"The Altar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sometimes I think people get nervous when they hear this word.&nbsp; The altar in the church can bring different connotations.&nbsp; Maybe some think of it as a place for scolding or that you go there when you\u2019re convicted of you sin and have to be shamed in front of everyone.&nbsp; I can understand that feeling, but that hasn\u2019t been my response, at least lately when I think of the altar.&nbsp; For me, the altar is a beautiful sacred place where change happens.&nbsp; I grew up in a denomination where \u201caltar calls\u201d were common.&nbsp; The altar has significance being a place of pruning and awareness, repentance and forgiveness, call and confession and correction.&nbsp; People sometimes think of the altar as a place of shame, guilt and remorse.&nbsp; However,&nbsp; when I think of the altar, I actually look at the altar so fondly.&nbsp; It has been a place of needed connection with God.&nbsp; It is a place where everything else is stripped away and all the we can use around us to interrupt our relationship in reconciliation with our God is gone.&nbsp; You are before God, in all of your brokenness standing or kneeling in need of Him, seeking Him and you know what?&nbsp; He is there.&nbsp; He meets us there.&nbsp; The altar isn\u2019t a place to get dressed up for; it is a place to drop and unload the mess of your life into the arms of someone who can carry it, who is big enough to hold the doubts, anger and questions.&nbsp; A God who can handle your disappoint and tears.&nbsp; Of all the places to come, the altar is the representation of where God meets us and changes us.<\/h2>\n<h2>I have seen chains broken at the altar, lives changed, brokenness reconciled.<\/h2>\n<h2>A lot of times when I was at the altar, I was not there alone.&nbsp; People came up and prayed with me, prayed for me.&nbsp; Not only did I meet God, but others also met me there, where I was, not for what I was or could be, but where I was.&nbsp; They prayed for me, they encouraged me, they helped disciple me.<\/h2>\n<h2>The altar can be described differently, defined in many ways, some I found were:<\/h2>\n<h2>\u201c<b>a memorial of the places where God meets us\u201d<\/b><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>\u201ca significant symbol representing sacrifice, worship and divine encounter\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>\u201cthe altar foreshadows the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross<span class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"a209789e-e9cb-40f3-a7e9-bdb1c33f56f6\"><span class=\"UV3uM\">&nbsp;\u201c<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>We read in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament of people building an altar in representation or marking of where God did something and it needed to be remembered.<\/h2>\n<h2>Altars were places where people experienced God\u2019s presence and entered into covenants with Him.<\/h2>\n<h2>The altar does not need to be a stiff, stoic place of fear and shame.&nbsp; I think we often put spiritual, holy things in boxes of how they have to be which makes us consciously create formality around it, which, sometimes makes it scary.&nbsp; But when we meet Jesus when we encounter Him, the space is sacred, yes, but the sacredness doesn\u2019t have to make it stoic.<\/h2>\n<h2>The altar is the place to offer ourselves, our whole selves, stripped away of all that holds us back from full engagement with the everlasting God.<\/h2>\n<h2>I have been listening to a song to help keep me reminded of my need for the altar.&nbsp; My frailty, my brokenness, my weakness to continually keep me in a place of reckless dependance on Jesus.<\/h2>\n<h2>There are a couple of lines that have really spoken to me with one being, \u201cthere\u2019s no waste at the altar.\u201d&nbsp; Offering isn\u2019t always equal in our human brains.&nbsp; We think offering our child as Abraham did was such a large sacrifice, and of course it is.&nbsp; But in the offering is obedience and in that obedience of offering, I believe God is pleased.&nbsp; There were times for me when I was at the altar where I was struggling with something small, like guidance in a high school friendship, other times it was offering myself to full-time ministry.&nbsp; Our brains in the human sense would say that isn\u2019t equal right?&nbsp; But offering isn\u2019t wasted.&nbsp; Whether a high school problem or a life call, God uses it and it isn\u2019t wasted. Even when life looks different than we imagined when we said YES to the offering, it isn\u2019t wasted.<\/h2>\n<h2>Another line is \u201cwhere the tears of the desperate, reach the feet of the Savior,\u201d (GASP EMOJI)\u2026oh the beauty of these words.&nbsp; In the nothing of our tears, we bring everything, because we know who we are bringing nothing to.&nbsp; And if nothing is wasted, then those tears, those desperate tears never fall unseen.&nbsp; They aren\u2019t nothing, they are an offering, sometimes when we have nothing else to give.<\/h2>\n<h2>\u201cWhere the heart of surrender, meets the hands of the Maker.\u201d&nbsp; In our offering, no matter how big or small, there is likely a cost.&nbsp; Surrender, giving something up, allowing it not to be yours anymore is a cost, but what better place to put something we think it costly into the hands of the Maker?&nbsp; Our offering is not wasted.<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><strong>At the Altar<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">I\u2019m removing<br aria-hidden=\"true\">All of the things that would move me further from You<br aria-hidden=\"true\">A thank you could not be enough<br aria-hidden=\"true\">It\u2019s not lost on me what You saved me from<br aria-hidden=\"true\">I\u2019m running<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Stumbling, I know but I\u2019m coming<br aria-hidden=\"true\">To give You this offering<br aria-hidden=\"true\">My worship, I\u2019ll never withhold<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Broken, but You call it beautiful<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Where the tears of the desperate<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Reach the feet of the Savior<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Nothing I wouldn\u2019t offer<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Where the heart of surrender<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Meets the hands of the Maker<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Nothing I wouldn\u2019t offer<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">You can bring everything, everything<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Things I\u2019ve treasured<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Oh, couldn\u2019t come close to Your presence<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Grace upon grace, who could measure?<br aria-hidden=\"true\">No, nothing could measure<br aria-hidden=\"true\">And I\u2019m returning<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Oh, back to the One, I am running<br aria-hidden=\"true\">To give Him my love<br aria-hidden=\"true\">\u2018Cause He took a sinner like me<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Washed me with grace and then set me free, oh<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Where the tears of the desperate<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Reach the feet of the Savior<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Nothing I wouldn\u2019t offer<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Where the heart of surrender<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Meets the hands of the maker<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Nothing I wouldn\u2019t offer<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Your arms are open wide (there\u2019s no waste at the altar)<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Oh, just bring it all to the Father<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Use it all, You can use it all<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Open invitation<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Come lay your broken dreams at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">And every victory at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Fear and anxiety cannot live here<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Let your heart sing out and tell Him you love Him (love You, Lord)<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Don\u2019t make it perfect, just let it be honest (we love You, Lord)<br aria-hidden=\"true\">He can use anything, sit back and watch Him<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Come lay your broken dreams at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">And every victory at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Fear and anxiety cannot live here<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Let your heart sing out and tell Him you love Him (you love Him)<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Don\u2019t make it perfect, just let it be honest<br aria-hidden=\"true\">He can use anything, sit back and watch Him<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar, oh<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Lay it all down, lay it all down<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the altar<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"ujudUb\">Oh, He can use anything (He can use anything)<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Yes, He can use anything (He can use anything)<br aria-hidden=\"true\">He can use anything<br aria-hidden=\"true\">Just sit back and watch Him<br aria-hidden=\"true\">There\u2019s no waste at the 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