WHAT IS THE COST OF YOUR SERVICE? PT.1

“….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 doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.” (2Samuel 24:24).

The cost of any service is the sacrifice. God is a God of sacrifice, there is nothing that attracts God’s attention to us like our sacrifice, especially when it is made out of love for Him. A costly sacrifice is such a powerful spiritual principle that when Israel was winning the war against a Moabite king, he had to sacrifice his son that should have reigned in his stead, and that sacrifice was so costly and powerful that it
became an indignation (great wrath or fury) against Israel and they abandoned the war and go back to their land (2Kings 3: 27). Although that sacrifice was to a heathen god, yet it was powerful enough to make Israel abandon the war.

When we give up something in the cause of service, it moves God. In the book of Mark 10:17-22, when Jesus told the rich man the cost of becoming a disciple, he quickly changed his mind. He was ready to serve in order to enter the kingdom, but was not ready for the cost. What our service to God cost us also shows how much we love and honor Him in our lives. This is what God
value much! For instance, a believer that defiles rain
to be at church service and the one that comes to services only when it is convenient are both rendering services to God, however, the one that defiles rain to be in church paid a higher price for his service. Jesus said in in the book of Matthew 16:24,”….If
any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me.”
Self denial is the sacrifice we must make for the service of following Christ. Without sacrificing those things which self holds so dear for the sake of following Christ, then self is still valued more in our lives.

Therefore, it is not really about service, but what we
are ready to sacrifice for the service. I ask you again,
what is the cost of your service to God?