Seize the Moment – Day 500
Holy to the Lord!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, July 30.
Believers in Jesus have been clothed in righteousness; we have taken off the soiled clothing of sin and put on the new garments of salvation. This kind of language is anchored in today’s chapter of Bible reading.
Exodus 28 is all about the ornate garments the priests of the old covenant were required to wear to be a minister of God! As verse 4 summarizes, “These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of checkered work, a turban and a sash, and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister as priest to Me.”
The entire chapter is packed with intricate details that seem cumbersome, if not comical, by today’s informal and relaxed standards in nearly every area of culture, including church life. An important detail is captured in Exodus 28:36-38: “You shall also make a plate of pure gold and shall engrave on it, like the engravings of a seal, ‘Holy to the Lord.’ You shall fasten it on a blue cord, and it shall be on the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban. It shall be on Aaron’s forehead.”
Just as Aaron and his sons had to have “Holy to the Lord” visibly located on their foreheads to minister to the LORD, we, too, must have the presence of the Holy One visibly in us.
Only that which is holy from the inside-out will bear the fruit of the Spirit for the world to see! One day, all of God’s people “will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads” (Revelation 22:4). Until that Day…
Seize the moment and live knowing that God will write His name on your forehead for all the world to see that you are “Holy to the Lord.”