Devote to the Lord needs to pay costs

1 Chronicles 21:18-31
While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves.  Then David approached, and when Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.
But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.” So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site.
David built an altar to the Lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
Why?
David knew he sinned so need to pay anything to ask forgiveness from the Lord. Before David make payment to build an altar and the offering. God has ready to stop the plague on Israel. So God is the Lord of grace and mercy. And God is righteousness for David's proud and fool mind.
Devote to the Lord needs to pay costs to show our hearts and honor the Lord. Sometimes cost money or time or life.
God is good for his mercy and grace is full and his punishment and angry are temporary.
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大衛把自己和百姓放在同樣的地位，不願以王的身份接受阿爾南的奉獻。
600舍客勒，不少的金子。
從天降下火，表示神悅納大衛的祭，與神建立關係就是裏外一致獻給神！15節神已經停止災了，但是到大衛獻祭後才要天使將刀收起來。
神聖殿的位置經過這一般事情顯明出來。聖殿就是人悔改的路，神的憐憫的路，人回到神面前的路。
聖殿是萬民萬國禱告的殿。
神人關係重新建立。歷代誌從歷史看神的憐憫和人的悔改。撒上下、列上下是以歷史看神的審判、作為，看人的罪。歷代誌說明透過耶穌基督與神建立關係，神也會接納我們。
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How?
Give thanks to the Lord and humble ourselves when we are peace and joy.