Numbers 29:2
and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;
Truth: Our worship to God is to please Him, not us.
Three times in this chapter of Numbers the writer, Moses, states that the nation of Israel is to come before God with a specific offering for the sole purpose that it would be a "pleasing aroma to the Lord" (see verses 7 and 13). The worship to God was to pleasing to God. He was the one the one that was to be honored in the worship. You would think in all worship of God this would be a normative. But, in reality, it is not. We don't judge our worship by whether it is pleasing to God ... we judge our worship in regard to if it pleases man ... us ... most of the time. We tend to leave formal worship services focusing on whether the music was the right selection and/or the preaching the right inflections. We want to be the judge of the worship "atmosphere," rather than allowing God to be the judge. In our "informal" worship (everything but Sunday morning) we seldom even consider if God is honored and pleased. God is to be honored in all that we do and it is Him who is to be sought pleasure and not, we, ourselves. In Hebrews 11 we are told that the only way we can please God is through the vehicle of faith. Therefore the one way we bring an offering to God and know for sure that we can please Him, is through faith. We are not to seek to please ourselves, we are to seek to please God through faith.
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