Week 12 Tuesday
Exodus 29 shows the seriousness of priestly consecration, Psalm 54 finds David clinging to God amid persecution, and Peter calls the temple crowd to repentance.
Exodus 29
📖 What are we reading?: The consecration of Aaron and his sons as priests, and the atoning blood of the sacrifices.
✞ What does this passage say about God? He takes holiness and consecration with great seriousness.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? Perhaps the church has lost some of this seriousness regarding ordination and consecration. Let's remember today that Christ's blood alone atones for our sins.
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➡️ The bigger picture: Exodus, meaning "departure", was written by Moses around 1400 BC. It tells the thrilling story of Israel's miraculous deliverance from slavery in Egypt - a picture of Christ setting us free from the prison of sin.
Psalm 54
📖 What are we reading?: David cries out to God in the midst of persecution.
✞ What does this passage say about God? Verse 4 shows us that He is David's helper, the one who sustains him.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? May we hang onto God in faith just as David does here, especially in our own seasons of persecution.
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♫ Worship with Luke through the words of Psalm 54.
➡️ The bigger picture: The Psalms is a collection of 150 poems and songs, written by David and others, expressing the full range of human emotion in response to God and to life.
Acts 3:12-26
📖 What are we reading?: Peter addresses the astonished crowd, explaining that the healing came through faith in Jesus, and calls the people to repent.
✞ What does this passage say about God? He raised Jesus from the dead as the very author of life, and sent Him first to His own people to bless them.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? Peter calls his hearers, and us, to repent and turn to God, so that our sins may be wiped out.
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➡️ The bigger picture: Luke's second book outlines the ministry of the early church - though it could just as well be called the Acts of the Holy Spirit, as He guides and grows Jesus' small movement into something that changes the world.
A Prayer for the Day
🙏 Lord, help us to hold consecration and holiness as seriously as You do, to cling to You in faith through every persecution, and to turn from our sin in response to Your call. Amen.
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