Giving God your Best!!

Quick post for all of us to think about...Are you giving your best to God or are you giving him your tired beat down left overs? I was looking through a bunch of scriptures and I found that God doesnt really like second hand gifts, he likes the best. Cain and Able came before God with their sacrifices to Him, one was great and the other well... not so much. Abel came before God with his best offering from his livestock and it pleased The Lord. Cain he brought the average plate of his produce and fruits to God and God didnt like it so much. it wasnt because one was meat and the other a veggie tray that got God all miffed, it was because it wasnt Cains best. Cain becomes angry and sad and God tells him, Why has your countenance fallen, dont you know if you do what is right you will be blessed but if you do what is wrong sin is knocking at your door and you need to conquer it. There is something to be said about not giving your best, when you give God your leftovers you are telling him that he plays second fiddle to all the other stuff in your world, and he isnt really into that. Or what about in Isaiah 58 where Isaih tell the people who are claiming to fast and worship God, but get chastised for their worship because they were not really giving God their all they were being superficial, and quite honestly they wouldnt hear God because he wasnt near them. God tells them the kind of fasting i want is for you to free the wrongfully accused, loosen the chains on the oppressed, lighten the load of those who work for you, give food to the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, dont run when family asks for help, when you do this your Godliness goes before you and when you call out my name i will answer here I AM! Finally in Malachi the priests were not giving their everything to God in their sacrifices in stead they were using them to turn a profit, instead of giving God the best sacrifices to God they gave lame animals, blind animals, ones with diseases Etc.. God responds like this, "“Go ahead, beg God to be merciful to you! But when you bring that kind of offering, why should he show you any favor at all?” asks the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “How I wish one of you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and I will not accept your offerings. “But you dishonor my name with your actions. By bringing contemptible food, you are saying it’s all right to defile the Lord’s table. You say, ‘It’s too hard to serve the Lord,’ and you turn up your noses at my commands,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Think of it! Animals that are stolen and crippled and sick are being presented as offerings! Should I accept from you such offerings as these?” asks the Lord. “Cursed is the cheat who promises to give a fine ram from his flock but then sacrifices a defective one to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and my name is feared among the nations! (Malachi 1:9, 10, 12-14 NLT)" How blessed could your life be if you truly gave the God of Heavens armies your absolute best, your perspective would be so awesome because the world as you know it would no longer revolve around you, it wouldnt be about wealth of this world, coveting your neighbors stuff, or other women/men, it wouldnt be about greener grass, or bank accounts. It would be about pleaseing the creator of all of those things, giving Him glory and building your true treasures in heaven. God loves you and wants desperately for you to see him as the king worthy of all your praise and when you give that to him he adopts you into his family giving you his inheritance. Dont settle for anything less that giving your absolute best, think about it God gave you his absolute best when he sent you His Son to die on the cross for you!