1/16/2009 10:11 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Caring for the priests
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Numbers 18:8-20
Message of the verses: “8 ¶
Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Now behold, I Myself have given you
charge of My offerings, even all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel I have
given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual allotment. 9
"This shall be yours from the most holy gifts reserved from the
fire; every offering of theirs, even every grain offering and every sin
offering and every guilt offering, which they shall render to Me, shall be most
holy for you and for your sons. 10 "As the most holy gifts you shall eat
it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. 11
"This also is yours, the offering of their gift, even all the wave
offerings of the sons of Israel Israel Israel
20 ¶ Then the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall
have no inheritance in their land nor own any portion among them; I am your
portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel
This begins
a new section in Dr. Wiersbe’s book, and this is the second concern of the Lord
for the people, and in this case it is the priests.
Back in the
book of 34th chapter of the book of Genesis the daughter of Jacob
was rapped by a Shechemite. Dinah was a sister of Simenon and Levite and after
the rape the told all of the Shechemite males that if Dinah was to marry on of
them they would all have to be circumcised.
They agreed to this and while they were healing from the circumcisions
Levi and Simenon attacked them and killed all of them and this was a disgrace
to Jacob so when he was about to die he prophesied that both Simenon and Levi would
be scattered in Israel Judah and Levi was scattered all around Israel because out of Levi came the priests and
the rest of them were helpers of the priests and had some forty-eight locations
around Israel
These
verses tell of how the priests were feed, and it came through the sacrifices of
the people. Only the ceremonially clean
could partake of the food. In verse
nineteen there is a mention of an everlasting covenant of salt, and that is
what it means to have a covenant of salt, it is everlasting.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: God through Jacob gave a prophecy concerning
all of his sons and they have or will all come true because when God gives a
prophecy through on of His prophets it is as if it already has happened, it is
in the prophetic tense. In this section
I have evidence of this prophetic tense and this surely gives me confidence
that all of the prophecies in the Scriptures will come to pass, that is the
ones that have not already come to pass.
I also see in this section how God cares for all of His own, that is the
priests in this section. Come to think
of it I too am a priest of God.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Continue to learn more and more about the Lord.
- Continue to learn contentment.
- Continue to trust the Lord to guide my path.
Memory verses for the week: Romans
6:19-21
19.
I am speaking in human terms because of the
weakness of your flesh. For just as you
presented your members to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in more
lawlessness, so now present your members to righteousness, resulting in
sanctification.
20.
For when you were slaves of in, you were free in
regard to righteousness.
21.
Therefore
what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now
ashamed? For the outcome of those things
is death.
1/16/2009 11:00 AM
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