Today’s Reading: Leviticus 23
Key Verse: Leviticus 23:5
On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.
The seven feasts of the Lord were established 3500 years ago, and they continue in the lives and homes of observant Jews today. The early Christians were all Jews, at least until the conversion of the Roman army officer, Cornelius (Acts 10). They continued faithfully celebrating these annual feasts, and in the past year, thousands of believers in Jesus who are Jewish are still celebrating. Many of us who are Gentiles have joined them from time to time. They will describe for us with great joy how Jesus is the “Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). Some who read “100 words” are Jewish. You celebrate Jesus. Here’s an assignment for the rest of us. How do we see Jesus in all seven feasts?
PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Lord Jesus, as a Jewish man, You celebrated the feasts. What a joy it would’ve been to live in a booth made of branches for a week with You during the Feast of Tabernacles. May I celebrate who You are for 52 weeks every year. I rejoice in Your constant Presence. Amen!
100 PERSONAL WORDS:
It’s early morning and I’ve just slipped quietly back into our bedroom to retrieve a book from Norma-Jean’s night table. It’s The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. Her book mark is in his 5th letter. I read there, “This King, who is full of goodness and mercy, doesn’t punish me. Rather, He embraces me lovingly and invites me to eat at His table. He serves me Himself and gives me the keys to His treasury, treating me as His favorite…This is what being in His holy presence is like.” Recently, I could not put down a book published by Crossroads in 2012 on the current epidemic of teen suicide by Dr. Jerry Johnston and then Crossroads CEO, Don Simmonds, entitled, Why They Die: Curing the Death Wish in Our Kids. Please, please get this book. It will motivate you to loving action on behalf of our teens. Every parent or grandparent needs to understand what is going on in the minds of today’s youth.
