Paying the price to praise.
We leave on the tour bus, in about an hour, to head to the Temple Mount. The place David bought from Aruanah, 2 Samuel 24, as a place to worship God.
Aruanah offered to give it to David, all of it, lock stock and barrell--but David would have none of it. In my words, David wouldn`t take it because only by paying for it, by giving of what he had, by investing in this piece of property, only then would he truly feel a part of it. Like it was his.
Worship is like that.
We can watch from the sidelines.
We can have it going on all around us.
We can see how others participate in it.
But until we give a part of ourselves to it, it is not ours.
We have to pay the price to praise.
We have to make the effort.
We have to offer to expend ourselves.