Worship is a beautiful thing, when you are before God and you feel his love it seems like everything in that moment seems so perfect your worship flows and its like you can feel the breath of God.
It's so wonderful when you can come before God with an offering of praise, maybe even an offering of "I lived a pretty righteous life this year," an offering of "I read my bible everyday this week," an offering of "I have been faithful to my wife and kids," or an offering of "I suffered for Christ sake this week by standing up for righteousness when the guys at work where telling dirty jokes," and I could go on. My point is, it just feels good when you have something to offer God in worship, and I think most of us even believe God mostly only responds to us when we bring an offering.
However, what happens to our worship when we have absolutely nothing to offer God. I am talking about those times when you have not lived up to par. When you said things that a Christian should not say, when you watched things a Christian should not watch. And even sometimes we just get "weary in well doing," and even our righteousness feels empty and ritual.
I have come to realize that my "offerings have been in the way." In other words when I felt I had something to bring to God I only got a pat on the back, but when I know I did not have anything to offer God is when God started to change me, so when I began to lift my empty hands up before God and when God reached back down and found no offering in my hands to take and accept,instead of pulling back is hands he went ahead and took my empty hands and pulled me up to his side.
And so sometimes our "offerings can be in the way" of Gods intervention, but when we come before him empty and void, God has room to fill us.
Psalm 51:17 declares: "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise."
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