Psalm: 50 Meditation: HebWhy did the law require sacrifices? During the temple period, God sometimes told the people that he wouldn’t accept the sacrifices of his people. Why does this letter to the Hebrews say “all” the sacrifices before Jesus were insufficient? How did the death of Jesus Christ fulfill God’s will and God’s requirement …
Tag: Sacrifices
Monday, January 9
Psalm: 121 Meditation: ColHow do you rejoice in your sufferings? Can you suffer for those you haven’t met? Here Paul reminds the readers of his sacrifices for the church and the cosmic scope of Christ’s Lordship and His redemptive work. While absent from each other, we are knit together in love with the assurance of …
Sunday, September 11
Psalm: 24 Meditation: JohnIt’s one thing that someone sacrifices themselves for others, it is altogether different to sacrifice someone else out of fear or to maintain the status quo and/or your own influence. The fear of Roman reprisal caused Caiaphas to plot to kill and later condemn Jesus. It is ironic that he would prophecy …
Friday, November 5
Psalm: 107 Meditation Ecclesiasticus: First dreams then sacrifices. I have heard it said that we all dream. When I dream (or if I dream) I can only manage to salvage but snippets of the phantoms. As Sirach tells us dreams are but fantasies and nothing of worth unless sent by God as in Joseph’s, Daniel’s …
Tuesday, May 12
Psalm: 68 Meditation Romans: “…offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.” (v. 1) Much of the letter has been concerned with God’s mercy. Offering our bodies may mean in the sense of the “new life” given us by the Holy Spirit. The OT required living sacrifices to be offered (killed) but, …
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