If we’re to do the opposite of offering to God things that cost us nothing, what might that look like? For David in 2nd Samuel 24, it’s a financial cost. He buys the threshing floor and oxen for 50 pieces of silver. And he doesn’t see that as something to be avoided at all cost. The very idea behind our […]

We shouldn’t offer worship to the King which costs us nothing. But it’s important to say as well that our worship is not acceptable to him simply because it’s costly. 1st Corinthians 13 reminds us that if we give away all that we have, and we deliver up our bodies to be burned, but have not love, we gain nothing. […]

Whether we’re willing to pay the cost shows what we really think of God. That’s God’s own argument in Malachi chapter 1. He says: ‘Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favour?’ In other words, try and be so half-hearted as you serve your king – or as your serve your employer – and see […]