PSALM 51:17-18
"The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart O God."
The first question that many people ask themselves in any situation is, "what is expected of me". What do my parents want me to do? What is it that the teachers want me to learn? what is my job description? Directed toward any entity the question is WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME? In this truth for today the question is being directed toward God and specifically WHAT DOES GOD WANT FROM ME? Just prior to this question the Lord stated that He did not want a burnt offering sacrifice. In fact the real question is what could I offer to God that He does not all ready own? God does not want anything tangible that I possess. WHAT DOES GOD WANT FROM ME?
There is a sacrifice that is acceptable to God from you personally. It is the only thing that you really have to give to Him. There is one sacrifice that God will not despise from you! If you can say with truth and humility that your sacrifice is a a broken worldly spirit, a broken and contrite heart. If you can say that you are truly sorry for all of your sins, against God and man. If you are broken with sorrow for what you have done and are thoroughly penitent toward God, then you will be offering the only sacrifice that God desires.
God will be pleased with this sacrifice of righteousness. You have opened the door of your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ and He will come in and dwell with you. That is all that God ever wanted from you. He said, behold I stand at the door and knock and if any man will open the door to his heart, I will come in and live with Him. The Holy Spirit will be the proof of this act and you will be born again. Born in the spirit and not in the flesh. This world has nothing to offer us in reality and only the promise of God is of any value to us eternally. So if anyone asks you, WHAT DOES GOD WANT FROM ME, the correct answer is your broken spirit and your contrite heart.
