November 19, 2024
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Reading along with us in Numbers and 1 Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
Numbers 29 (NIV)
The Festival of Trumpets
1“ ‘On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets. 2 As an aroma pleasing to the Lord, offer a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect. 3 With the bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; with the ram, two-tenths;……Continue Reading
Thought I did comment
As I read the accounts of these special feasts and days and all the specifics of the sacrifices, I thought of how often things were done to be a “pleasing aroma to the Lord”. Then I thought about our lives and behavior and for us how we live is our sacrifice. I think how many times I say things to my kids like “your attitude stinks” or “your behavior stinks” and thought immediately that is what it is like every time i sin. I am no longer a pleasing aroma to the Lord but rather I stink! So while we may not have these traditions, sacrifices, and feasts any more we still always have an opportunity to be a pleasing aroma!
Numbers 29
Numbers 29
Numbers 29
That’s a lot of livestock.
The seventh month for the Jews would be a special one. What better way then a blast of trumpets to announce its beginning. It would be followed with a day of humility, preceded by reflection and confession and then recognizing the great gift God would provide in offering atonement to the people of Israel. It would then end with a great celebration remembering their travels in the desert and God’s provision there. All these times would also be a time of sacrifice, always including a sin offering, recognizing the consistent need for sacrifice to make them right with God, but then offerings of praise and thanks to God. One again a reflection that God should always be on their minds, but especially in the 7th month.