Day 56 - Offerings

Daily Reading:  Numbers 28-30

The Lord said to Moses, "Give this command to the Israelites and say to them:  'See that you present to me at the appointed time the food for my offerings made by fire, as an aroma pleasing to me.' "  Numbers 28:1-2

28:1,2 Footnote:

Offerings had to be brought regularly and presented according to prescribed rituals under the priests' supervision. Following these rituals took TIME, and this gave the people the opportunity to prepare their hearts for worship. Unless our hearts are ready, worship is meaningless. By contrast, God is delighted, and we get more from it, when our hearts are prepared to come before him in a spirit of thankfulness.

We are no longer under the law and don't have to make these daily, weekly, etc. offerings and sacrifices. Jesus was our ultimate sacrifice! Yet God does desire to be in relationship with us.

"Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name." Hebrews 13:15

AND

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship." Romans 12:1


"Present your body, therefore, as a living and holy sacrifice. Take all the tasks that you have to do every day - the ordinary work at the office, the factory, the home, the school; take the tasks that you perform in your marriage relationship and the parent-child relationship; and offer all of it as worship to God." (William Barclay, The Letter to the Romans, p. 168)

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May our lives be a continual offering, poured out to the Lord, a living sacrifice. May our praise, the fruit of our lips, be a pleasing aroma to our God!

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All footnotes taken from the Life Application Study Bible, NIV.