Anyone want to buy a Sacrifice.

During my devotional reading this morning, I came across this verse

2 Samuel 24:24 But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing."

This event acured after King David on his own free will choose to count the fighting men of the land, even though he was warned not to do so by a close confident. Because of it a 70,000 Israelites died during a three day period. To bring this to an end, David was instructed to sacrifice to God and it would end. He came across Araunah, who was willing to give him everything he needed for the sacrifice, but David's response was no . . .I will not sacrifice to the Lord My God anything that doesn't cost me nothing.

How can we learn from this? Serving, many times requires sacrifice and more times then not, it will cost something. There is no free serving, there is no free sacrifice . . more times then not it will cost us something.

The question then . . am I willing?

Have a blessed day.