9/2/2008 8:40 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Aarons sorrow
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Leviticus 10:3-11
Message of the verses: “3 ¶
Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what the LORD spoke, saying, ‘By
those who come near Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the people I
will be honored.’" So Aaron, therefore, kept silent. 4
Moses called also to Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron’s uncle
Uzziel, and said to them, "Come forward, carry your relatives away from
the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp." 5 So
they came forward and carried them still in their tunics to the outside of the
camp, as Moses had said. 6 Then Moses
said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do not uncover your
heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not
become wrathful against all the congregation. But your kinsmen, the whole house
of Israel
8 ¶ The LORD then spoke to Aaron, saying, 9 "Do not drink wine or strong drink,
neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so
that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations—
10 and so as to make
a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the
clean, 11 and so as to teach the sons of
Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them through Moses.’”
In
Leviticus 21:10-12 God again gives the law that when the priests had the
anointing oil on they could not go near a dead person even if it were his
parents: “10 ¶ ‘The priest who is the highest among his
brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been
consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his
clothes; 11 nor shall he approach any
dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother; 12 nor shall he go out of the sanctuary nor
profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of
his God is on him; I am the LORD.”
Sometimes
as a mere mortal it is difficult to understand some of the things that take
place in Scripture, but at the beginning of an era in salvation history there
have been other things like this that have happened. When Israel began to conquer the nations in
the Promised land there was the death of Achan, and when David was bringing the
tabernacle up to Jerusalem Uzzah was killed by God for touching it because only
the Levites were to touch it, and after the Church era began there was the
death of Ananias and Sapphira for lying to the Lord.
It may seem
cruel to some that these things happened, but God is Holy and He can never make
mistakes for that would be out of character for Him to do so, and that is where
faith has to come in and also one has to study each of these situations in
order to understand them more fully so that these mistakes are not repeated and
one can thus learn from them.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: There are times in my life when it is going
to be very hard for me to do the right things according to what are the Laws
and commands in the Scriptures, but I must do the right thing because the Lord
Jesus Christ has said “If you love Me you must keep my commandments,” so I am
to do it out of love for the One who first loved me and gave Himself up so that
I may be able to love and to have eternal life.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Show my love to the Lord by following His commandments.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.
- Put on the spiritual armor so that I can stand.
Memory verses for the week: Exodus 20:4-9
- You shall not make for yourself and idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
- You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children on the third and forth generations of those who hate me,
- but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments.
- You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who take His name in vain.
- Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,
9/2/2008 9:19 AM
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