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Sacrifices That Cost Nothing
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007
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I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." 2 Samuel 24.24

Judgment had fallen on Israel, so the prophet, Gad, told David, "Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." When David went to build the altar, Araunah offered David oxen to sacrifice and wood for the fire free of charge. But David responded that he would not offer to the Lord anything that had no cost. He would pay the full price for Araunah’s threshing floor and oxen.

We may draw a very practical lesson from this: that we should never seek to offer to the Lord anything that does not cost! Cheap devotion is evidence of cheap love. All the blessings of God are without cost to us; but there is no way for us to show our love to him without cost. Whether it be in the currency of money, time, energy or anything else we have at our disposal, we must follow David’s example: I will not offer to the Lord that which costs me nothing.

But there is a deeper and more important lesson to be learned here, I believe. David is the prime picture of Christ in the Old Testament; so here we see our Savior saying, “I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” It is beyond our ability to comprehend the great cost of our redemption by the sacrifice of Christ. He gave Himself for us. He did not merely give some of His resources, but all of himself. Everything he had as God was surrendered in His incarnation, life and death (Philippians 2.6-8). The Lord did not hold back one thing in His offering, but gave all – the full price of our redemption.

Behold in this His love for us! We are bought with a price – a price paid by Jesus Christ. No greater love has any man than this; that he lay down his life for his friends; and the great “friend of sinners” laid his life down for us, his friends.

But behold even more the devotion of Christ to his God and Father: He would not think to render to Him a sacrifice without cost. He would not insult His God with cheap service: He would not seek to bribe the Judge with less than full payment. He surrendered Himself to be the lamb provided by God for sacrifice, and thus did not attempt to lessen the toll of the sacrifice. He did not offer to the LORD, his God, a burnt offering that cost him nothing.

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