Still More Sacrifices
Read Hebrew 13:15-16; Philippians 4:14-18
God looks for the sacrifices of praise. How easy it is for us to complain! How difficult it is to praise the Lord and think Him for His mercies! “O that men would praise the Lord for His goodness!” exclaimed the psalmist. Continual praise means a continual walk with the Lord, being alert to every blessing that He sends. Whether we are singing, testifying, or just thanking Him, our words are sacrifices on the altar, accepted by our High Priest.
Paul looked upon the church’s missionary offering as a sacrifice given, not to him, but to the Lord. How careless we are with tithes and offerings. Money represents a part of our lives, the labor we have expended; it ought to be precious to us to give part of it to the Lord. Many believers just “drop something in the offering plate,” and their actions are not really spiritual worship.
“Ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand?” the prophet Malachi asked the priests of his day (Mal 1:13). Imagine the priests of God keeping the best for themselves and bringing castaways and rejects to the Lord! Unfortunately, some of God’s priests do this very thing today. Is it any wonder they miss God’s best blessings?
Let’s be faithful priests and bring the best to Him.
(Copyright, Warren W. Wiersbe. First appeared in Thoughts for Men on the Move. May not be copied or reproduced without express written permission of the author.)
Dr. Warren Wiersbe (1929-2019) was an internationally known Bible teacher, author, and conference speaker. He graduated in 1953 from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois. While attending seminary, he was ordained as pastor of Central Baptist Church in 1951 and served until 1957. From September 1957 to 1961, Wiersbe served as Director of The Literature Division for Youth for Christ International. From 1961 to 1971 he pastored Calvary Baptist Church of Covington, Kentucky south of Cincinnati, Ohio. His sermons were broadcast as the “Calvary Hour” on a local Cincinnati radio station. From 1971 to 1978, He served as the pastor of Moody Church in Chicago 1971 to 1978. While at Moody Church he continued in radio ministry. Between August 1979 and March 1982, he wrote bi-weekly for Christianity Today as “Eutychus X”, taught practical theology classes at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and wrote the course material and taught a Doctor of Ministry course at Trinity and Dallas Seminary. In 1980 he transitioned to Back to the Bible radio broadcasting network where he worked until 1990. Dr. Wiersbe became Writer in Residence at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids and Distinguished Professor of Preaching at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. In his lifetime, Dr. Wiersbe wrote over 170 books—including the popular Be series, which has sold over four million copies. Dr. Wiersbe was awarded the Gold Medallion Lifetime Achievement by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).
