The Lord Be With You Today!
Isaiah 66:20b-21
"They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings,
to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels.
(Just as the Lord required sacrifices to be offered to Him
in appropriately and ceremonially cleansed containers,
He declares that His people will bring to Him
the harvest of their ministry outreaches to the peoples of the world,
a parade of people whom they have influenced and pointed to the Father,
people who have been cleansed and redeemed by salvation in Christ.
Instead of the Temple sacrifices, these people themselves
will be the cleansed and pure sacrifices offered to the Lord
because they have embraced the Good News of salvation.
Now, instead of the prescribed sacrifices ordered in the Old Testament,
we today come before the Lord offering Him our lives
as a pleasing and acceptable sacrifice to offer Him.
And we are cleansed vessels because Christ has made us pure and clean.)
And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites," says the Lord.
(The Lord tells us that we are a Kingdom of priests unto Him.
He has chosen us to have the privilege of ministering to Him,
to do the work of the Lord, to acknowledge through worship His Lordship,
and to represent before the Lord the people whom He brings across our path
as a part of the intercession and witness we bear them,
which is our calling today.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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