Yesterday was Fri. the 13th. Now, I am not superstitious, but somehow or other, I forgot to write my blog yesterday. Chalk it up to my last birthday, friends. I am getting more and more forgetful. If you looked for a new blog and didn't find one, I am sorry. But as my family from Ohio came to visit us yesterday with the latest two great-grandchildren, Oliver and RiverGrace, I guess my mind was filled with family thoughts. Please forgive an old lady.
In 2 Sam. 24:24, David said, "I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing." When the owner of the threshing floor offered to give the floor to King David as well as some sacrificial animals, David told him he needed to pay for it. This is an important lesson for us today. God wants us to yield to Him only that which costs us something of ourselves. We were bought with the price of Jesus' death, God sacrificing His own Son. How could we bring an offering to God that wasn't costly to us in return?
My offering to God must be something that is important and valuable to me. I must yield to Him my own free will. As Jesus prayed, "Not my will, Father, but your will be done," Jesus demonstrated that I am to come to God with a humble and contrite heart. The cost may seem too great because it requires me to yield my will to Him. The cost is my own independence, yet in its place I become dependent upon God and His will for me and that is what God is waiting to hear from each of us.
Lord God, May my offerings to you always cost me something that's important to me. Amen.
Jo INMN
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