Expensive Worship

2 Samuel 24:24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it, for I will not present burnt offerings to the LORD my God that have cost me nothing.” So David paid him fifty pieces of silver for the threshing floor and the oxen. True worship comes with a price. No, not that God requires a dollar amount to make your worship genuine. Don't look at it from God's perspective today. Take a look at it from your heart upward. After all that God has done for me, can I feel justified with casual worship? Can I be ok with offering something to Him that doesn't alter or change me in the least? I am greedy and selfish. I want what's best for me, and if my worship isn't transforming my selfishness into something greater than myself, then I'm missing it somewhere. If I'm not doing things that causes my flesh to say "I don't feel like it", "I don't have to give that much of me", then am I really worshipping God in a manner that He deserves. The salvation that He freely gave us was bought with an astronomical price. It just makes since that our appreciation of that gift would reveal itself in a way that costs us something. We can never repay Him for all that He has done. That is foolish, but we can live our lives in a way that looks like we are giving it our best effort.