BLEMISHED SACRIFICES

Read Malachi 1:6-14

In the Bible reference mentioned above (sorry, its too long to type, so you guys have to flip to your Bibles), the Lord talks about His people bringing the diseased, crippled and injured animals for sacrifice at the altar of God, when in fact only animals without defect were to be offered to the Lord (see Leviticus 2, 3).

Today, we no longer have the practice of bringing animal sacrifices to the Lord, but just as God required His people to give Him the best, we too today ought to give and offer to God what is best. For me, my application of this would be to give God the best time of my day where I'm most alert and awake to spend time with Him. I've been trying to start my day by reading the Word before going to school (cos its when I'm more awake and not tired yet).

Other things that we can apply this verse to are the things we do to serve the Lord: leading worship, preparing for cell, preparing slides, ushering, doing refreshments--things we do so often and have become so familiar with--we need to remind ourselves that it is all for God and not just simply go through the familiar motions of doing the things we are so used to doing. Sometimes we get so familiar with our ministry duties, we lose the reverence we once had when we first started serving.

Be sure to give the best that you can to God!