What is your offering?
Is it the money in the plate? What
do you offer to the Lord? For
some an offer is an attempt to purchase something, so you make an offer.
Then to complete the deal you give the offering as agreed to.
When it comes to worshiping the Lord, the offering takes on a different
meaning.
From Dictionary. COM:
of·fer·ing
The act of making an offer. Something, such as stock, that is offered.
A presentation made to a deity as an act of religious worship or
sacrifice; an oblation. A
contribution or gift, especially one made at a religious service.
Contribution, gift, donation, present, and submission are all synonyms
of offering.
Scripture
Text:
Malachi 3:7 Ever since the
time of your forefathers you have turned away from my decrees and have not
kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD
Almighty. "But you ask, `How are we to return?' 8 "Will a man rob
God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, `How do we rob you?' "In tithes
and offerings. 9 You are under a curse--the whole nation of you--because you
are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may
be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and
see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much
blessing that you will not have room enough for it. 11 I will prevent pests
from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their
fruit," says the LORD Almighty.
1Peter 2:4 As you
come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and precious
to him-- 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual
house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God
through Jesus Christ.
Why should we offer anything, because
we can, because we should, and because He deserves it.
What will we offer to God? Offer
yourself time, talent, and treasures, which is all of you.
Can you afford to not give to God? God loves a cheerful giver.
You can’t out give God. Bring
all your tithes into the storehouse. No
one can out give God. Give
intentionally. Why should we give
our money to God? Why does God
want our money? What is the
offering for? Is it really
God’s money anyway? How
much should I give? How often
should I give? Give because you
choose to honor Him.
Bring to God your worship.
Bring to God your love and
devotion.
Bring to God your life.
Bring to God your time, talent, and
treasurers.
Bring to God your heart.
Bring to God your offering.
What will you bring today?
What is your offering to the only
true living God?
The
offering is still for today, if there are people who still want to make one.
Will
you?