Your Life is Not a Sacrifice if it Doesn't Cost You Anything
2 Samuel 24:24 says, “ I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." The background of this verse is that David had sinned against the Lord by not trusting the LORD, and also of becoming proud of the numbers he had counted in his armies of 800,000 men in Israel and 500,000 in Judah. God’s judgment upon David resulted in a plague that killed 70,000. David felt extremely remorseful and realized how much devastation was caused by his sin. The prophet Gad told him to build an altar and make sacrifices unto God. So David went to Araunah the Jebusite and said he wanted to buy his threshing floor to build an altar there. Araunah offered to just give David the threshing floor and the animals to sacrifice to which David replied “I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." Note that David’s decision to make a sacrifice was not an effort by David to appease the God he had sinned against. He was maki