Anything that cost me nothing

David Builds an Altar

18 On that day Gad went to David and said to him, "Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." 19 So David went up, as the LORD had commanded through Gad. 20 When Araunah looked and saw the king and his men coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.

21 Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?"
"To buy your threshing floor," David answered, "so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped."

22 Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take whatever pleases him and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. 23 O king, Araunah gives all this to the king." Araunah also said to him, "May the LORD your God accept you."

24 But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing."
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels ^[c] of silver for them. 25 David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. ^[d] Then the LORD answered prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.

[V1]
I cannot come before
A righteous holy Lord
And offer to Him worldly things
I do not need
And hope He's pleased
For He wants me to give
A heart that's truly His
An offering of highest price
A servant who the Lord can use

[V2]
To serve Him is my goal
How could I withhold
Whatever's mine He's given me
It's not my own
It's His alone
Whatever He requires
That is my desire
Whatever He may need from me
I'll pay the cost
Gain or loss

[C]
And I will not offer anything
That costs me nothing
I'll place before Him nothing less
Than my very best
And if I'm called into sacrifice
It will be worthy of my Christ
I will not offer anything
That costs me nothing