Before anything else...
"And you shall
eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you
have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings." (Leviticus 23:14 ESV)
Before they were
allowed to eat any part of the harvest, Israel was required to give a
firstfruits offering. Imagine that. Imagine giving opening the use of anything
else and framing the values of using anything else.
Imagine if we had to
give before doing anything else?
The point of
offerings is to cause us to focus on God. Suppose we took the privilege and
point of giving to heart. Suppose we saw the opportunity for what it is, and we
truly put our focus on God... in ALL things. Suppose we focused on God with
food, shelter, clothing... breathing. Suppose we focused on God as we shopped,
talked, watched television, searched the internet, or perused social media.
Suppose we didn't
even do any of those things until we'd made an offering to the Lord? Suppose that
offering was free-hearted, true, fine, and truly used to cause us to focus on
the Lord? What such people might we be and what such thoughts might we think
and what such words might we speak if our offerings put our focus on God?
What would be like
if we first focused on God and then continued to focus on God as we
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What would be like
if we drew nigh unto the Lord before we did anything else?
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