BRING AND OFFERING AND WORSHIP

Ps.96:8 – Ascribe to the LORD the glory of His name; bring an offering and come into His courts.

This is part of David’s Psalm calling the people to worship. Come and worship with loud singing. Come and sing a new song to the Lord. Come into His presence with thanksgiving, come before Him and bow down, come and kneel before our great King. Throughout this Psalm David used the word ascribe, to place a value on the glory of the Lord. How is that even remotely possible? David knew that of course but he would spend his life trying to fill that cup, David did his best to ascribe glory to the Lord. Here is how Spurgeon describes this.

“But who can do that to the full? Can all the nations of the earth put together discharge the mighty debt? All conceivable honor is due to our Creator, Preserver, Benefactor, and Redeemer, and however much of zealous homage we may offer to him, we cannot give him more than his due. If we cannot bring in the full revenue which he justly claims, at least let us not fail from want of honest endeavor. Bring an offering, and come into his courts. Come with an unbloody sacrifice; atonement for sin having been made, it only remains to bring thank offerings, and let not these be forgotten. To him who gives us all, we ought gladly to give our grateful tithe. When assembling for public worship we should make a point of bringing with us a contribution to his cause, according to that ancient word, “None of you shall appear before me empty.” The time will come when from all ranks and nations the Lord will receive gifts when they gather together for his worship. O long expected day begin!”

So how shall we start in following David’s steps? David taught us all of these things – clap your hands, lift your hands in the sanctuary, shout unto God with a voice of triumph, dance before Him with all your might, enter His presence with thanksgiving, enter His courts with praise, bow before Him in reverence, kneel before Him, and in today’s verse bring an offering when you come into His courts. I know times have changed and many of us give our tithes and our offerings electronically and that is good; but maybe it would do us good to intentionally think about our tithes and offering when we come into God’s house and worship and even give thanks to Him for those offerings. Oh yeah I almost forgot something else David said, “let everything that has breath give praise to the Lord”.