12/12/2008 10:32 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Separation fulfilled
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Numbers 6:13-21
Message of the verses: “13
‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his separation are
fulfilled, he shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent of
meeting. 14 ‘He shall present his offering to the LORD:
one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering and one ewe-lamb a
year old without defect for a sin offering and one ram without defect for a
peace offering, 15 and a basket of
unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with
oil, along with their grain offering and their drink offering. 16
‘Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer his
sin offering and his burnt offering.
17 ‘He shall also offer the ram for a sacrifice
of peace offerings to the LORD, together with the basket of unleavened cakes;
the priest shall likewise offer its grain offering and its drink offering. 18
‘The Nazirite shall then shave his dedicated head of hair at the doorway
of the tent of meeting, and take the dedicated hair of his head and put it on
the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings. 19
‘The priest shall take the ram’s shoulder when it has been boiled, and
one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put
them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his dedicated hair. 20
‘Then the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. It
is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered by waving and the
thigh offered by lifting up; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.’ 21
"This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD
according to his separation, in addition to what else he can afford; according
to his vow which he takes, so he shall do according to the law of his
separation.’”
This
section of Scripture shows how someone who has made a vow to be a Nazirite for
a certain length of time and has finished the vow successfully what they should
do after it is completed. There are a
number of sacrifices that the person should offer to the Lord: A burnt offering of a male year old lamb; a
ewe—lamb for a sin offering; a ram for a peace offering; a basket of unleavened
cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil along
with their grain offering and their drink offering. He was then to take part of the ram along
with the basket of unleavened cakes and then shave his head and offer the cut
hair on the fire as part of his offering.
The ram and grain offering are to be waved before the Lord as a wave
offering and then the person who made the vow along with the priest could
partake of this as food to celebrate the completion of making the vow.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I have made two vows to the Lord in late 1980
or early 1981. The vows were to read my
Bible at least five minutes each day and to pray at least five minutes each day
and there have been a few days when I did not complete my vow each day, of
which I have confessed my failure to the Lord.
I have missed less than ten days of not reading the Bible and less than
twenty days of not praying for five minutes.
I will admit that there were days when I did it out of duty rather than
out of getting closer with my walk with the Lord. None of these vows can save a person, but to
help them grow closer to the Lord which is what I have a desire to do.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Give myself to the Lord for service, worship, and to have my mind transformed by the renewing of my mind through the reading and memorizing of God’s Word.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Learn to be content.
- Put on my spiritual armor.
Memory verses for the week: Romans
12:1-11
- 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 His death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we to might walk in newness of life.
- For if we have become untied with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
- knowing this, that our old self has been crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
- for he who has died is freed from sin.
- Now if we have 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 is no longer master over Him.
- For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
- Even so consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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