Excellent Sacrifice

sacrifice

i just read the last chapter of 2 Samuels today.
and it was amazing when David said that He wouldnt give to the Lord something that dooesnt cost him anything.

A gift that cost you something. You have to pay for it. Either with money, time, energy, talent, you name it.
That's what i call a sacrifice. Pengorbanan.

It hurts to pay. It really does. Cause you are losing something that you have been keeping and you're giving it to someone else. But that's really what a sacrifice is. You give to God something that's coming from the inside of you. Something that you treasure and you've held on to. But then you're giving it to the Lord as a symbol saying that, "Lord, You mean more to me than this money. You mean more to me than this time of 1 hour."

Later on in the evening, i decided to do a lil' bit of exercising, since it's been ages since the last time i did..xp and i uploaded a sermon from Ps Jose Carol - Excellent Sacrifice. Its more than mere coincidence, cause i never knew that i had that CD. And one of the part that strike me from the sermon was when Ps Jose said "God is not obligated to accept your sacrifice!"
*deg!* nancep banget!!!

Not everything that we offer to God will be accepted. Like Cain, God didnt want to accept His sacrifice.

Has God been accepting all the offerings i've given to Him? Or i just dont know that he actually has rejected some of my offerings cause i've just given it to his as an "obligation".

It just one of those days when i have to reflect back.