“By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the LORD’s table may be despised.” (Malachi 1:7 ESV)
When my little girls were small, we had several piles of used clothes that were “hand-me-downs” or “consigned” from families that we knew. These were the clothes that we dress them in for rolling in the dirt, the spaghetti lunches, and any other expected “messy” event. They were the left overs.
When the time would come to receive visitors, go to church, or go outside to shop or visit others, we would dress them in the new clothes that we bought–ones that we had specifically for them so that they would look nice.
How terrible is it when we give God the left overs of our worship! When we give God the last two minutes of the day for a quick prayer as we drift to sleep; when we walk into the place of our worship in shorts and T-Shirts; when we give our left overs from our paycheck as an “offering”.
We must seek to worship God with our best–our best of everything. He is, after all, God.
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