Contemplative Bible Reading

Deuteronomy 12:6-7 (New Living Translation)

6 There you will bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your sacred offerings, your offerings to fulfill a vow, your voluntary offerings, and your offerings of the firstborn animals of your herds and flocks. 7 There you and your families will feast in the presence of the Lord your God, and you will rejoice in all you have accomplished because the Lord your God has blessed you.

The theme of verse 6: offering, i.e., give.

The theme of verse 7: rejoice.

Hmmm, there must be some mistake here by putting these two next to one another. Right? Wrong. Let us rejoice in what we offer to the Lord and to our fellow man. Somehow, we seem to do this wrong—repeatedly. God, help me in my unbelief.