No, but I will buy it from you

          for a price.

I will not offer burnt offerings

to the LORD my God

that cost me nothing.

              2 Samuel 24. 24

(Not works or sacrifices,

nor earning His favor,

or "look what I am doing for God,"

but a deep expression of

              love for Him.

What am I bringing before God today?

          My heart.

This unlikely threshing floor

that David bought

               to bring his sacrifice,

eventually became the site

      of the temple in Jerusalem.

God never works

             in singular outcomes.

Our offerings to God

--in whatever form that may be--

never cease to

              bring Him glory.)

O LORD,

We pray Your glory

all over this day

as You guide us into it

and through it,

Your Presence

       seamlessly woven,

even in what we are unaware,

even in what

        will outlast us.

Please help us

      to bring Your Name

to this situation,

to this place,

to this relationship.

There are a lot of things

       we cannot do,

but what we can,

     we give to You

by loving You

and loving others well

   every which way we can,

for Your glory.