Giving the Lord Our Best
We go to church on Sundays. We go to some kind of Bible study group. We attend worship. Then, we go home. Some of us go to prayer meeting or other Bible studies during the week. However, we can do all of that without giving very much of what we have and who we are to the Lord. In other words those things cost us very little most of the time. The Bible calls on us to give our best to the Lord, and when we do that it will cost us more than just a little time and energy. King David was very aware of this principle. He needed to offer sacrifices to God to stop the plague that was raging against Israel because of his sin of taking a census. (II Samuel 24:24) Araunah offered to give him his threshing floor and his oxen for the sacrifices, but David rejected his offer by insisting he pay for them because he would not offer sacrifices to the Lord his God that cost him nothing. So he paid for everything, and God accepted His sacrifices and stopped the plague. Just think of what God h...