These you shall offer to the Lord at your appointed feasts, in addition to your vow offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your grain offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings. Numbers 29:39 – In yesterday’s devotion we highlighted the grand amount of offerings the Lord was calling His people to make on a regular basis and how on certain days of the years all the daily, weekly, monthly, and appointed feast sacrifices would line up on the same day and how Israel was still expected to give all of it. One commentator noted that each year Israel sacrificed at least 1,086 lambs, 113 bulls, 32 rams, more than a ton of flour, and some 1000 bottles of oil and wine. That is a lot, but notice I said they’d sacrifice “at least” this much. Meaning this was the minimum expectation for this was just the offerings God placed on their calendars to always be given. Our verse above reminds us that scripture also outlined other offerings the people must do. If they sinned there was offerings to be made, more offerings could be made if they made some sort of vow, they also were told they could just give thanks to the Lord by bringing offerings whenever they wanted to. In summary, God was expecting a lot from His people back then, and God is still expecting a lot from His people today. Thankfully Jesus took care of the sacrifice so we don’t have to worry about all the animals like those in Numbers had to, but our expected gift isn’t any less valuable to the Lord. In fact it’s of greater value for God is desiring to have our entire life. For the Israelites back then, and us today, we then are faced with the question is God worth all this sacrifice? He’s asking for so much, is He worth it? He is and He always will be. Remember all we have is from the Lord and He’s already done so much for us. Know the cost of following Jesus is high, but it’s worth every bit. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3379
Question To Ponder: What might be a cost attached to following Jesus?
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