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City: San Diego
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/8/2006
Thursday, January 25, 2007 

Category: Writing and Poetry
Background:
In the book of Malachi the priests were offering sacrifices of worship to God that were not even worthy of offering to an earthly king. These animals they were offering were blind or had other physical defects. Malachi rebuked the priests for offering God the leftovers of their worship.

Application:
We too are to give God the first part of our worship. Often times we stay up late and drag ourselves out of bed, barely making it to church on time (if we make it on time). Or we get into a fight with our spouse or kids and don't resolve it. Or our traditions have become the thing we worship instead of God (this is a whole other subject). God deserves, no He requires, the best of our worship.

This does not mean that we turn church into professionalism. In fact, that would be going the opposite direction, for often times professionalism turns into a facade. However, we are to offer God the best we have to give. That is, we are to give God the best of our resources; and resources include our money, time and talent.

My hope is that we don't feel condemnation when we realize we have done this, but that we feel challenged. I hope we are provoked to think and take an inward survey of our heart to make sure we are offering our best worship to God.

David said it this way in Psalm 139:23-24:
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

And this way in Psalm 51:11-13:
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
7:29 AM
 
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