Today’s 333 Devotional: “God’s Glory Doesn’t Change”

God does not change, and this extends to His glory, or the glory due His name. What God is saying in Malachi 1:6-8 is that they were not glorifying His name as they should have by offering a poor quality of worship.

He compares this to how a king or father is honored, but they were not extending that same honor to God, who is both their King and Father. And when they asked God how, He replied that is through what they were offering.

What I find interesting is the great lengths they took in rebuilding God’s temple but then not offering God the best. Kind of like a new restaurant that spends thousands on décor, but pinch pennies on the food they serve.

We do this by offering second-rate worship. We offer God our leftovers, what we can spare, or the old, while we buy ourselves the new.

But the Lord says something through Malachi that should make us stop and reevaluate.

“‘Who is there even among you who would shut the doors, so that you would not kindle fire on My altar in vain? I have no pleasure in you,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘Nor will I accept an offering from your hands.’” (Malachi 1:10)

They also found their service and worship of God wearisome and unfulfilling (Malachi 1:13).

Does our worship of the Lord God excite us to an even greater degree than going to a sporting event or concert?

Through the prophet Isaiah the Lord said, “I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to carved images.” (Isaiah 42:8)

Whenever anything else take precedence over our worship of God, then that is what we are worshipping. When other events or activities or even our comfort takes precedence over our gathering together to worship God, then we are giving His glory over to that.

But God’s glory, like His love remains unchanged.