Psalm 20:3
3 Remember [zakar] all thy offerings, [minchah] and accept [dashen] thy
burnt sacrifice; [`olah] Selah. [celah] KJV-Interlinear
3 May
He remember all your meal offerings, And find your burnt offering acceptable!
Selah. NASB
The burnt offering
represents the will of God and His sole plan for all of creation. It speaks of the Cross and Christ’s sacrifice
on the cross in order to provide salvation for all who believe. And, the burnt, though it was a teaching tool
for instruction in salvation and the work of God and man in the one person of
the Messiah, it also represents mans or the offeror’s recognition and
acceptance of Gods plan while simultaneously rejecting mans will and mans plan
for history and life.
The meal offering, ‘minchah,’
is a gift or a presentation to God in thanks for the provisions that God has
given to man. It is confined to cereals
or grains that have been ground up into flour and then mixed with oil. Oil is representative of Gods grace
provision. This is an offering of thanks
and in recognition of Gods provision, and Gods provision alone.
Man can live his life and
come to believe that he and he alone has made and accomplished whatever it is
that he has. And this is arrogance and a
total rejection of Gods divine decrees.
Those decrees are the details of Gods plan, in infinite detail, that
takes into account everything that occurs in history.
No matter what is in your
life, God made every provision for everything that you have. Whether it is the date that God actually
caused you to be born, to any and all friends or acquaintances that you will
have, to every aspect of your career and life that you will live, to everything
that you will own, to every problem that you will face in life, and so forth.
Too many people face many
and unending problems because they fight Gods plan. They live on their own
arrogance, or on their own hate, or on their own attitude of self-importance,
and so their life goes from one problem to the next and they never get it. They stubbornly reject humility.
Man makes offerings in
recognition of Gods will and provision, and God recognizes those offerings and
accepts them because they are true and correct.
God never accepts false offerings.
In the Old Testament
times, offerings were a part of ones daily or monthly or yearly life. They represent mans spiritual activity within
their daily life.
Today we do not have
offerings, we have the written word, we have our daily study, we have our daily
or how ever often it is needed, confession, we have our prayers, we have our
spiritual growth and so forth. These are
our current versions of offerings.
Your daily life, lived in
fellowship, is a living and continual offering and worship indicating your
recognition and acceptance and adoption of Gods plan and mandates and
principles, etc., in your life.
So long as you pursue
your spiritual life legitimately, then your spiritual activities are
accepted. Only when your spiritual activities
become phony or arrogance filled are they rejected by God.
We all have our
responsibilities and obligations in life.
And it is God who decides what those responsibilities and obligations
are. We do not have the right or option
to pick and choose what we will or will not accept.
Confront or fight against
or reject Gods defined responsibilities for you, and therein lies your answer
as to why you will fail.
In life we all will face
problems and hardships.
All hardships come in two
categories.
First are those hardships
that exist for our punishment because we are not in compliance with Gods will,
and second are those hardships that are there because we are in compliance but
God is placing tests in front of us in order to strengthen our spiritual
resolve and faith.
To determine what your
hardships are, is as easy as looking in the mirror of your own life and answering
the questions as to whether you are in compliance with Gods definition of the
spiritual life and your responsibilities therein, or not.
If you are objective, studying
daily, confess regularly, and otherwise abiding by Gods defined
responsibilities and obligations for your life, then your problems in life are most
likely for advancing your spiritual growth.
If you are subjective, do
not study regularly, do not confess regularly, are driven by your emotions
instead, have your own attitude as to what you will or will not abide by in
life, then your problems are of your own doing.
You will fail over and over, again and again in life until you either
wake up and change or until the date of your death.
