Get serious

2Samuel24:1-25

When it cost nothing, it will worth nothing. What is it costing you in offering your service unto God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength? If your service unto God is not costing you anything, there is a need for self examination. Also, it is not possible for you not to know that it does not cost you. If it is costing you and you do not know, you still need a self examination. There is a price to be paid for everything that you get. Thank God we do not have to pay money for salvation; money to pay for an answered prayer; or money for His goodness and mercy. Jesus paid it all on the cross and we have to pave it through to the cross. In 2Sam.24:24, King David said to Araunah, ÒNo, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offering to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing.Ó So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. The cost that God expects from His children is commitment. Any thing short of commitment is convenience and it might not count before God. If your offering of service is with convenience, there is a need to allow commitment take over. If it cost nothing; it will worth nothing. Get serious in the LORD.