Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

How God's people have rebelled against him in the past and encouraging God's people in the

present as they prepare to go into the Promised Land and we see different instructions about how

God is to be worshipped and specifically here in Deuteronomy 17 verse 1. We see God warning his people

against the temptation to be half-hearted in their sacrifices toward him instead of giving a

sacrifice that is pure and holy and without blemish and in a sense more costly they will be

tempted. God says to give a sacrifice that is blemished that is defected in some way because

that would be less costly and God says that would be and the word he uses is an abomination to

me. That's strong language. God's saying to his people that he is worthy of worship that is

pure and holy and wholehearted and costly. It just causes me to think obviously we live under a

new covenant today where we're not offering sacrifices like this. Jesus is our perfect sacrifice.

Yet what is Romans chapter 12? Tell us. Therefore in view of God's mercy let us offer our bodies

as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God for this is your spiritual act of worship.

So how do we worship today? Not by giving pure, holy, unblemished sheep but by giving our lives

and purity and wholehearted devotion to God. And so I would just ask you based on Deuteronomy

chapter 17 verse 1 even as this verse prompts me to ask in my own heart where in your life,

where in my life are we giving God less than what he has asked of us? Where are we settling for

impurity in our lives and our sacrifice to him? And what ways are we giving God less than

wholehearted worship? And what ways are we not giving God all that he deserves in our lives?

Oh God, you are worthy of our entire lives. It's a living sacrifice before you.

You are not worthy of halfhearted worship. You are worthy of all our hearts, all our souls,

all our minds, all our strength, everything we have. So God, we pray that we would not hold back.

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