Acceptable Giving

No amount of giving can sway God one way or the other. He already owns 100% of anything we give back to His kingdom. He doesn’t need the money. What do you give to Someone who has everything? To quote David in Psalm 24:1, “The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.”

God owns everything because He created everything. But He does want to have a relationship with us. God requires us to give a portion of what He gives us back to His Kingdom because He wants us to be a part of it.

God made us in His image and He desires relationships, so He made us that way too. And that’s how we need to understand giving. David understood this and we’ll see in Psalm 51 how he acts properly.

Let’s set the stage. The prophet Nathan had called out David for his adultery with Bathsheba and sending her husband Uriah off to die in battle to cover his sin. That takes place in 2 Samuel 11.

Now, obviously, David sinned against Bathsheba and Uriah, but he understood that his sin was ultimately against God.

Now to Psalm 51 and verse 16  where David reveals something about God that should direct us in how we give. He writes, “You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one. You do not want a burnt offering.”

If money could buy God’s forgiveness, David probably would have given everything, but he knew God wanted nothing material from him.

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