A Pleasing Sacrifice
A Pleasing Sacrifice. God has placed the need to worship Him in the hearts of His creation. In longing for God, man tends to stray following the desire of his own heart and follow a way not pleasing to God. We desire to follow traditions and acts of worship or devotion placing those acts in higher regard than what is required of us in our walk of faith. I tend to think of how the Israelites strayed many times away from God, they followed other gods and gave worship as the pagan nations did. This devotion to other gods angered the one True Living God and brought calamity to the nation and so it still does within our singular and national lives today. In our heart we still desire to perform “acts of worship” in that, we desire to go before an alter and offer sacrifices or follow various traditions such as spiritual rites and specific repeated prayers. Man has in him the need to draw closer to His creator, and in trying we fall into worship that is not pleasing to God but to demons (...