Reading: Hebrews 9, 1 Kings 8, and 2 Chronicles 5
Scripture: Hebrews 9:13-14, For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Observation: The Hebrew people would once a year go up to the temple to sacrifice to have their sins covered by the blood and ash of the sacrifice. I many times don’t think about the what the sacrifice process looked like or what it cost those who participated in it. With this being an agricultural society the cost of taking an animal and some grain to the temple and giving it to the priests to sacrifice.
Application: We have been blessed in that we were born in a time that Jesus has already fulfilled the requirements where we don’t have to every year take a large portion of our livelihood and hope that it is worthy of being a sacrifice. Let us always remember God’s great gift of sending his son to shed his blood as a perfect sacrifice that we don’t have to continue to go to the priests and ask them to sacrifice for us so that we can be covered.
Prayer: I thank you lord for sending your son, for providing us with a direct connection to you though the Holy Spirit. I thank you for the Blessings and provisions that you give us each day.
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