God doesn’t need our riches – he wants our hearts!
by Sal Huckel
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Sacrifice thank offerings to God … and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you (Psalm 50:14a,15).
Read Psalm 50:7–15
It’s easy to get caught up in either criticising ‘the church’ (whatever we mean by that) for asking for money … it’s just as easy for people to think that giving to the church makes us good Christians or gives us a special weighting to a vote in a church meeting.
While giving – from the heart – is part of the Christian walk, we need to keep it in the right place. This psalm reminds us that God doesn’t need our money. It’s all his. Everything in heaven and earth belongs to him. What is yours is already his and is from him. What does he want? He wants your heart. He wants ‘thank offerings’. He wants us to call on him when we are in trouble or struggling. God is the perfect parent. He wants us to give our hearts to him and to call on him, and he will deliver us.
How can you sacrifice a thank offering to God today? Perhaps this will be a financial thank offering. Perhaps it will be a little more of your heart. Perhaps it will be reaching for your prayer book instead of Facebook when you have a problem you need help with. Perhaps it will be relinquishing the rest you feel next Sunday and going to church tired anyway. Give him a fragment more of your time and see how he works in it. He is ‘God, your God’.
Lord, help me to cling to you above all else. Thank you for the assurance of your perfect, parental love for me. The love that never turns me away is always there when I turn myself away, and the love that is there waiting for me to run back to you. Lord, may I stop running. Help me to walk in step with you and turn to you above all things. Show me this week how I can give more of myself to you, in thanksgiving and praise for all that you have done for me in making me your child. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Sal is the wife of Matthew, pastor at Moorabbin–Dandenong Lutheran Church and assistant bishop of the LCA Vic–Tas District. They are blessed with six children who all love and serve the Lord in their different walks of life, from high school to post-grad. Sal is currently studying a master’s degree in counselling practice. She loves writing, speaking and walking to the beach at any opportunity.
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