Shalom,

Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers has a unique way expressing what our attitude SHOULD be towards the THINGS that God has blessed us with: 

Nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. — 2 Samuel 23:16

What has been like water from the well of Bethlehem to you recently — love, friendship, spiritual blessing? Then at the peril of your soul, you take it to satisfy yourself. If you do, you cannot pour it out before the Lord. You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself. If you satisfy yourself with a blessing from God, it will corrupt you; you must sacrifice it, pour it out, do with it what common sense says is an absurd waste.

How am I to pour out unto the Lord natural love or spiritual blessing? In one way only — in the determination of my mind. There are certain acts of other people which one could never accept if one did not know God, because it is not within human power to repay them. But immediately I say — “This is too great and worthy for me, it is not meant for a human being at all, I must pour it out unto the Lord”; then these things pour out in rivers of living water all around. Until I do pour these things out before the Lord, they endanger those I love as well as myself because they will turn to lust. We can be lustful in things which are not sordid and vile. Love has to get to its transfiguration point of being poured out unto the Lord.

If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you clutched it for yourself; whereas if you had poured it out unto the Lord, you would have been the sweetest person out of heaven. If you are always taking blessings to yourself and never learn to pour out anything unto the Lord, other people do not get their horizon enlarged through you.

This passage is in reference to the wonderfully bold and completely loyal and unselfish move by three of David's mighty men who, when they heard that David desired a drink of water from the well at the wall of Bethlehem, risked their very lives to go through enemy lines to bring David this water! When David saw what they had done, he poured the water out on the ground as an offering to the Lord because he felt that only the Lord God deserved such devotion! We should each cultivate this type of commitment and submission to the Lord our God! AMEN! After all, HE has NEVER failed us! Here is Hillsong Worship with "Jesus, I Need You":

JESUS,   I NEED YOU

Verse 1

Hope be my anthem Lord, when the world has fallen quiet

You stand beside me, And give me a song in the night

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Jesus, I need You       Every moment I need You

Hear now, this grace bought heart   Sing out Your praise forever

Verse 2

Beauty for ashes, You find the weak and contrite heart

Shoulder its burdens and carry  it into the light

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Remember love, remember mercy     Christ before me, Christ behind me

Your loving kindness has never failed me   Christ before me, Christ behind me              

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Shalom in Him!