The Offering
Look back at yesterday. Picture the days events in mind. See the day as a bowl of fruit, each piece of fruit corresponding to the actions, events and emotions of the day. You'll have some good fruit; these are the things you did happily, when you served others, when you prayed or studied God's word, or when you helped to lift the spirits of someone who was down. There will be some fruit that's slightly bruised; these are when you raised your voice in anger, when you hold a grudge against another, or when you thought only of your own needs. You get the idea. Then there is the bad fruit, the truly rotten fruit. You know, when you lusted for someone, or for something, when you struck someone, or told them something that really hurt them inside. Or when you worship something that is not God; money, things, sex, alcohol and drugs. Everything you think, say or do is some sort of piece of fruit. Now picture it, all there in a bowl. Some of it good, some not so good, and some truly detestable. Now picture this: presenting that bowl of fruit as an offering, at the feet of God. How do you think He would feel? Or rather, how do you think He does feel? Because, in truth, that is what we do each and every day. The whole of our day, when we go to bed each night, becomes an offering to our Father. All our thoughts, all our actions, the words, the good, the bad, it all is presented to God. As Christians, when we grow in faith, we try to continually improve our offering, that is our lives, making it more and more presentable as we go. None of us can ever hope for a perfect offering; only Jesus himself was able to make that kind of offering, both in the life he led, and the life He gave for us. But, we can gradually get rid of the bad fruit, and replace it with good fruit, until we have an offering we can be proud to present. And that is my prayer for us today; that we would recognize the fruits of our offering, and that we would strive to do better each day, and that upon placing our offering at the feet of Lord, that He would smile and say "Well done, good and faithful servant" Amen
posted by the voice @ 8:27 AM
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