BURN flesh, BURN.

Solomon went up there before the Lord to the bronze alter which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings.
-2 Chron. 1:6 (NASB)

Wow... and to think there are days where all my flesh wants to do is sleep in! I think this simple verse gets passed over a lot, but whenever I come to it I have to pause. I can see Solomon, with the sweat on his brow and soaking through his clothes... muscles straining... just throwing sacrifice upon sacrifice to the burning alter.

Not because he figured God would repay him (i.e. he would get something out of it), he didn't even know God was going to come later that night (verse 7)! All Solomon knew in that moment was that he was overwhelmed with LOVE for his Lord and this was his way of showing that!

Nowadays of course, we don't sacrifice animals thanks to Jesus covering that, but we do lay ourselves down to die daily, this is the attitude we ought to have about our own flesh burning...and how sweet an aroma to Abba it is!