Tuesday October 9, 2012

What can you be doing each day to remember that your Messiah died and rose again for you personally?

 

Read Leviticus 23:15-16

 

Imagine how crazy it would be if New Year’s Eve changed every year in Australia. Imagine if your birthday changed each year? Imagine if some of our beloved long weekends changed annually?

 

In Israel the feast of weeks was not set in the calendar as a particular date as our New Year or Birthdays are. It was counted off 50 days from the Feast of Firstfruits. It was the day after the 7th Sabbath from the Final Sabbath of Passover.

 

What does such a counting off of 50 days achieve? Think about the same concept for your birthday. Imagine if your birthday were 75 days after the celebrated birthday of Christ Jesus. Each year you would start counting from the day Jesus’ birth is celebrated and you’d count every single day, regardless of how busy you were. Everything about your impending birthday would be drawn to the birth of Jesus’. You’d be constantly remembering that particular day because it serves as your reference point.  With the Feast of Weeks the reference point is Passover. Everything is drawn back to Passover because that is our reference point. The people were never allowed to forget that God had miraculously delivered them from slavery in Egypt and brought them to the Promised Land.

 

Israel was never to forget that she was redeemed by God and formed into a nation by God. She was blessed by God and every crop, every animal, every ounce of food was a blessing from God, begun at Passover.  Likewise, may we never forget that the Messiah has redeemed us and formed us into His people. May we never forget that every meal, ever dollar, every friend, every sunny day is a blessing from our Lord, brought about by the death and resurrection of our Messiah on our behalf.

 

Prayer:

Use today’s reading and notes to write down ideas for your prayers.

 

Adoration:

 

Confession:

 

Thanks:

 

Supplication:

¥ Pray for the work of God in India through Shiloh Church Ministries. Pray that we would see God providing for all their needs and granting the daily necessities to the orphans. Pray that the light of Jesus’ love would shine brightly to the world around them.

¥ Pray for the work of Mustard Seed orphanage. Pray that God would be meeting all their needs through Christ and bringing many people into His kingdom through their testimony.