Malachi 1:12-13 – The Nexus

We’re into the very heart of summer. It’s hot. Way too hot in fact. And although the next month is going to be intentionally low key at my church, the reason for that is to allow time for families to vacation and rest and refresh…including my own. All this month I am going to be featuring some old posts during the week. Sermons from Sunday will go up on Mondays like always, but otherwise we are going to look back over some things I’ve written in the past. And, with closing on nine years’ worth of posts to pull from, there’s quite a selection ahead of us. Each post during this season will be one that ran on the current date in a previous year. So, take a fresh look with me at what was on my mind right near the beginning of the Covid lockdowns. Have a great Tuesday!

Digging in Deeper: Malachi 1:12-13

“‘But you are profaning it when you say: “The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.” You also say: “Look, what a nuisance!” And you scorn it,’ says the Lord of Armies. ‘You bring stolen, lame, or sick animals. You bring this as an offering! Am I to accept that from your hands?’ asks the Lord.” (CSB – Read the chapter)

There is a genre of comedy I would call “office comedy.” Some of the more popular entries are the movie Office Space from several years ago and the more recent television show, The Office. Entries in this genre all carry the same basic understanding of work: It’s something you have to do because there are bills to be paid and we all like to eat. In this vein, work is a convenience to be sure. But other than the convenience of enabling us to, you know, live, it’s an enormous, soul-sucking inconvenience in our lives that gets in the way of all the things we’d rather be doing. In Malachi’s day–and in ours as well–people were taking the same approach in their thinking about their relationship with God. He wasn’t happy about it.

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Digging in Deeper: Malachi 1:12-13