1 Chronicles 21:20-23
Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground. And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.” Then Ornan said to David, “Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all.”
Tag: Don’t Just Give - Give it All!!
In the above passage we see the story of Ornan and his sons giving their threshing floor to King David. David had done a sinful thing in wanting to “number” all his kingdom. Although we are not told why, we are told that Joan (who as given the task of counting all the people) was even abhorred by it. This was an example of a king and his pride. (This was a like a pastor of church going to a conference and telling everyone how much his church was growing by the numbers.). David’s pride had caused this thing to happen and God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. In the midst of the destruction David prays a prayer and the angel of the Lord stops and hovers over Ornan’s place of labor. David is wanting to have the threshing floor to build the future Temple in Jerusalem and Ornan wants to just give it all to him. There is no doubt that Ornan and his sons were simply terrified. We no very little about Ornan but he must have be quite fearful as he had an angle holding a sword over him and the king of Jerusalem standing in front of him. He was highly motivated to give it all. David will eventually pay him the worth of the location, the ox and the materials. But, the truth is, Ornan was willing to give it all. He didn’t just offer some grain or a simple ox or the threshing floor. He offered it all, including his tools. This was an amazing offering. These were the way he made his living. In complete faith he offered it all. God was able to talk his offering and will, via Solomon, build the temple on this location. Ornan was rewarded with full payment, but his heart was in the right place before that happened. God rewards the giving heart.
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