Uncomfortable S2 - Day 10

22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. 23 Your Majesty, Araunah[d] gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the Lord your God accept you.”

The story continues, and we see something amazing. Araunah tells David that he can have whatever he wants. Now, why did he do this? Did he do it because David was king and it would be good to give the king anything he wants?

Perhaps.

Could it be because Araunah wanted to make sure that God had everything that was needed to create and altar of protection for his people? That could absolutely be true as well.

But I don’t want to forget a principle that we live by at Crosswalk Church, and that is that we believe in the abundance of God. We believe that when God asks us to do something, then God also provides the means, the space, the time and the people to make it happen. We worship God in his abundance for all of the great things that he has done and that he will do for his people, and Araunah understood this, and wanted to be part of the solution, part of the miracle, and part of the protection that the altar would provide.

A quick note. I don’t believe, and neither should you, that the group of stones that made up the altar had any supernatural significance. Rather, it is simply a reminder of what God has done and a promise of what God will continue to do in our lives. What we see in this story is that both of these men were willing to create a space for worship, for remembering, for protection and a place for God on that threshing floor. That floor is nothing special, until God shows up.

Where is the threshing floor in your life right now? That place where God can come inhabit? What is God looking to make holy in your life through his presence and your remembering the good that God has done in your life?

The place could be our marriages, our relationships with our kids, the space where we work, play, or pray. When God shows up, all of this becomes holy. It might even be the space between your ears, or the cavity that holds your heart. Where are you allowing God’s presence to come in and create holiness?

JOURNAL:

1. Have you set aside time to work with God on the holy spaces and places in your life? 
2. How can you ask God into your relationships? 
3. How can you open your heart to what God is willing to do for you? 
4. How is God’s abundance providing for you? 
5. Take the time now. . .