What Can You Give to God?

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So much has been said about giving to the Lord that some people have gotten a false impression as to God's wonderful plan of salvation.
Of course, we would all like to bring God something which would atone for our many sins and shortcomings, but this is impossible. "They that are in the flesh cannot please God" (Rom. 8:88So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:8)), no matter how much they try. We are nothing but spiritual paupers in His sight. As bankrupt sinners, there is nothing we can do which is of any value at all to Him. The best we can do, our very "righteousnesses," amount to nothing more than "filthy rags" in His sight. (Isa. 64:66But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6).)
Because we can do nothing to please Him in our natural state, God does not require us to do anything or to bring Him anything. Salvation is not a matter of GIVING to Him, but rather of RECEIVING something from Him. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." Eph. 2:88For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (Ephesians 2:8).
All you can possibly bring to Him is just your poor, sinful, bankrupt self. Your first and greatest need is to have your sins forgiven. What peace and joy it will bring to know those sins are all put away forever, never to be remembered anymore.
God has everything good for you, both for this life and that which is to come. You can never understand what it means to have the constant companionship and guidance of the Lord Jesus until you experience it for yourself. In this life, troubles may come and troubles may go, but your joy in Him will go on forever, for "in Thy presence is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." Psa. 16:1111Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. (Psalm 16:11).
Then why not look to Him and let Him save you today? You know that He "once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God." 1 Peter 3:1818For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18). Now if you will receive Him and really trust Him as your own Savior, you can know that He died in your place and for your sins. You can know that He put them away forever "by the sacrifice of Himself." Heb. 9:2626For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (Hebrews 9:26). And you can know that under no circumstances will He turn you down, since you have His promise that "him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out." John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37).
It is not a case of "giving to God" at all; it is just receiving all that He has for you.