12/3/2008 9:46 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The gift of the Levites
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Numbers 3:5-13
Message of the verses: 5 Then
the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6
"Bring the tribe of Levi near and set them before Aaron the priest,
that they may serve him. 7 "They shall perform the duties for him
and for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of
the tabernacle. 8 "They shall also keep all the
furnishings of the tent of meeting, along with the duties of the sons of Israel Israel Israel
instead of every firstborn, the first issue of the womb among the sons of Israel land
of Egypt , I sanctified to Myself all
the firstborn in Israel
Whenever
Israel was about to come out
of Egypt the Lord killed all
of the firstborn of Egypt as
the last plague against Egypt Israel
All
firstborn males and animals had to be redeemed by a sacrifice to the Lord and
this could be seen when the Lord Jesus Christ was born: “22
And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses
were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord
23 (as it is written in the Law of the
Lord, "EVERY firstborn MALE THAT OPENS THE WOMB SHALL BE CALLED HOLY TO
THE LORD"), 24 and to offer a
sacrifice according to what was said in the Law of the Lord, "A PAIR OF
TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG PIGEONS’” (Luke 2:22-24).
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I am not sure of the spiritual meaning of the
firstborn of Israel belonging to the Lord, but I do know that because of what
Jesus Christ has done for me on the cross in order to redeem me from the slave
market of sin that I belong to Him, everything the I have belongs to Him in
order for me to serve Him and to worship Him just as Romans 12:1-2 says: Ҧ
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your
bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual
service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will
of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” I did this a lot of years ago, for the tense
of the verb in the Greek means that it happens once and it is forever, yet I try
to remember to renew this each day to remind myself that I do belong to the
Lord for I have been bought with a price and am to glorify Him in my body. (1
Cor. 6:20)
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1. To
give myself to the Lord for service and worship today and by faith, to
transform my mind by the Word of God so that I will not be conformed to this
world.
2. Trust
the Lord to guide my path today.
3. Put
on my spiritual armor.
4. Trust
the Lord to teach me and for me to learn contentment.
Memory verses for the week: Romans
12:1-9
- What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
- May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
- Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
- Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so as Christ has been raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
- For if we have become untied with Christ in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
- knowing this that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so we would no longer be slaves to sin;
- for he who has died is freed from sin.
- Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
- knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.
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