BEWARE OF FREE GIFTS

DAILY GRACE
SAT. 7TH MAY, 2016
TOPIC: BEWARE OF FREE GIFTS
TEXT: 2 Sam. 24:20-25

 l believe God with you to have a fruitful weekend in all of your endeavours.
King David was a man after God's heart. God loves him and blessed him and his generations to come afterwards (2 Sam. 7:8-17).
At a time, he sinned against God by counting the people of the land of Israel and Judah.
For this reason, God had to strike the land with plague and seventy thousand people did. Just because of the sin of a man ( King David)- 2 Sam. 24:15.
As a result of this plague on the people, King David was to offer a burnt offering to the Lord so that the plague can stop. He was given instruction by God through Gad, that he should go and build up an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite (2 Sam. 24:18). He went in obedience to fulfill this mandate, but he almost miss it. Thanks be to God that he was sensitive, otherwise he would have offered up an offering that cost him nothing to God and who knows if God would accept it.( 2 Sam. 24:20-25).    "And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground."   

The fact that Aruanah bowed down to him is enough for David to be blinded with his free gift. Vs. 21, "And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?
And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. 
The king knew why he was there- to buy a threshing floor to build up altar to the Lord.
 But see what Araunah said to the King; "And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood." He even offered him more than what the king requested of him but  "All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee". But, the King had a choice to make. Its either he accepts the free offer of Araunah or he buys them all at a cost and then build the altar. 
The King's decision is firm and resolute. "For the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which do cost me nothing.
 So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel."
Friends, if l may ask you, if you were in King David's shoe what would you have done?                    
   To be continued.....

Personal Confession:
Lord Jesus baptise me with divine sensitivity to always make right judgement/decision per time in Jesus name.
             
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