Seize the Moment – Day 548
Give Your Very Best!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, September 16.
When you give to the Lord, how do you determine what is an acceptable offering?
While there are technical issues people love to focus on when it comes to giving money, never forget that God has a strategic purpose for inviting us to give!
Leviticus 22:18-22 records God’s command to His people to offer only acceptable sacrifices from the best of His provision:
Any man of the house of Israel or of the aliens in Israel who presents his offering, whether it is any of their votive or any of their freewill offerings, which they present to the Lord for a burnt offering—for you to be accepted—it must be a male without defect from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats. Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it will not be accepted for you.
God desires for us to give our very best to Him. God desires to be approached by people whose hearts are committed to giving back to Him the very best of what they have been entrusted to steward. It is not by accident that Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was called the Passover Lamb, a male without defect (1 Peter 1:19), because Jesus gave His all so that we can approach God with our all.
Seize the moment and ask the LORD to teach you how to give with a right heart so that He may find your giving acceptable in His sight and bring His increase to your life.