Sermon Pentecost 23

What is the best gift you can give to God?

We are taught in the Gospel that God doesn’t want us to buy him off

with sacrifice of animals, or money, or even what we can do for him.

God wants far more than these – he wants us.

He desires us far more than what we can give him,

more than what we can accomplish for him

He owns everything – what could we give him that is not his already?

But a relationship of love is what he desires –

and for that we don’t need to have money, time, talent, or pride

we don’t need to have anything except nothing to lose.