Be Still . . .
Devotionals for Daily Living ©

When anyone brings from the herd or flock a fellowship offering to the LORD to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without defect or blemish to be acceptable. Do not offer to the LORD the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as an offering made to the LORD by fire.
(Leviticus 22:21-22 (NIV))

We don't make offerings of animals anymore!

That is true, but the same principle applies. If what we bring to God as an offering is blemished in any way, is it truly an offering? Could we simply be guilty of trying to get God to take our trash?

What about those whose offering is money? How can it be blemished?

If the offering is given with a heart that is less than cheerful, or if the giver has any resentment against anyone, then the offering is blemished in the eyes of God. We cannot freely and lovingly give to God when what we are giving is not our best. This goes for everything that we give to God - our time, our money, our hearts. If we do not empty ourselves of the blemishes that the world has given us, then we are not acceptable in the eyes of God. If we give and have hatred towards anyone, what does that say about us? If we give and do it to be better than our neighbor, what does that say about us?

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men
(Colossians 3:23 (NIV))

With this type of an attitude, we can avoid the blemishes that can effect our offerings to God.

Take a long and serious look at what you give to the Lord.

Is your offering free from blemish?

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