thanksgiving

always give our best to God. We shouldn’t offer Him only the things we don’t want to control or possess ourselves. We shouldn’t offer what is useless to us or what is left over. God is worthy of the most valuable & useful things in our lives. He deserves priority over everything. We are insufficient to control anything in our lives. He alone is powerful & trustworthy. We have no right to hold on to our possessions, because everything we have was given to us by Him in the first place & everything belongs to Him anyway.

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1 Samuel 16:1-13

God rejected Saul as king and told Samuel to anoint one of Jesse’s sons to be his replacement. The one Samuel thought looked good was not the one God chose and He explained that we may look at the outward appearance of a person, but He looks at the heart.
First we go through the story of God’s selection, then we read a lot of verses about how God knows and cares about our hearts more than anything else and what’s on the inside is what should matter to us too. We need to be focusing on actually being good people instead of just appearing to be.

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