Worship is Our Offering to God

“²⁸Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, ²⁹for our God is a consuming fire.” — Hebrews 12:28-29 (ESV)

This morning I was reading in Hebrews as I study the word “worship” and I was led to the passage here of “A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken”. The above verses are the writer’s closing to the passage and what I found that stood out to me was the idea/reminder that our worship is our offering to God.

When I think about offerings, I get visions of the plate passing in church or the sacrifices dropped at the alter. I don’t immediately go to worship or singing and praying to God in thanksgiving. This morning I ask myself why. I have to dig into the reasons.

We as a family recently received our giving statement from the church and when reviewing at first glance appears that we may not be giving all we can. But is that true? Am I really not giving enough as offering to God. I say, that I am, just not in the form of monetary giving. For instance, we are serving faithfully in the church to provide for the needs of the church and those that attend, whether that is in the kids department as Lori does, or in the set up and tear down of the “worship” area as Aarron and I do.

We are providing offering to God in the form of our service, and then, we worship as additional offering. It is great to hear Aarron stand next to me in the service and sing praise to God. He and I are very similar in our personality and for him to offer worship in song is a proud, brother in Christ moment for me. He gets it and takes action on it.

I still believe that I should be giving all that I can monetarily as offering, but I also know that is not all we can give and when you look at the passage and verses above, it is important to remember that our worship is our offering.

What are you giving as offering to God? Are you focused on the monetary gift you give? What if you were to increase your offering of worship in addition to your current monetary giving?