Offering

I "happened" on this passage this morning:

Malachi 1:

7 “You place defiled food on my altar.
“But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’
“By saying that the Lord’s table is contemptible. 8 When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.


So - maybe I'm oversimplifying the "suck" factor of our churches. Maybe it's that we haven't been obedient. Maybe we're making excuses for what we're offering God that even the IRS wouldn't believe...why do we think the Creator of the Universe will accept them?

AND - I have to wonder if we're not all bringing the "defiled food" to God's altar...