Good
Morning Friends,
“This
is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old.
Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight. With the first lamb offer a
tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from
pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering. Sacrifice
the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and its drink offering
as in the morning – a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire. For
the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD.” (Exodus 29:38-42)
For
the Jews, the sacrifices were never finished. Every morning started with the
sacrifice of a lamb. Every evening, another lamb was sacrificed. They did that
every day, month after month, year after year. These would be just two of the
many sacrifices that would be made every day. They were God’s requirement for them
to maintain their relationship with Him.
The
sacrifices taught the Jews how costly a relationship with God was. It required
that life be given. Each lamb paid the ultimate price so that the Jews could approach
God. A relationship with God came only at great cost.
Our
relationship with God is also made possible by sacrifice. We are not required
to make sacrifices day after day like the Jews did. By one sacrifice we have
been offered a relationship with God. One sacrifice, made by Jesus, is enough
to pay the price required by God for us to enter into a relationship with Him. The
Jews paid the price from their own flocks, they made the sacrifice to God. For
us, God paid the price, He made the sacrifice Himself!
In
an astounding act of love, God gave His own Son as the sacrifice to allow us to
enter into relationship with Him. He loved us enough to pay the highest price imaginable
to bring us to Him.
Thank
God for the great sacrifice He made for us.
His,
by Grace, Steve
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