What We Offer is Unclean

Scripture Haggai 2:14 Then Haggai answered and said, “‘So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,’ says the LORD, ‘and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.

Observation: What we offer our Lord is considered unclean for the most part, because of the way we offer it. We make offerings under compulsion, guilt, habit or because we feel we’ll get something from it. Our offerings need to be out of love for God and for no other reason. God’s word tells us that He doesn’t want sacrifices but obedience, which is something we need to offer continually throughout the day.

Application: The time I have left I need to offer my Lord works that our honoring to Him. God deserves the best I have and I need to strive every day to give Him that. I want to know when I get home that I was pleasing to my Lord with the work I did here on this earth.

Prayer Dear Lord I come before you and I want to offer you this life that You have given me. Please take it as a living sacrifice and that it might be holy and pleasing to You.