The Appointed Time!
Numbers 28
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, November 11. Happy Veteran’s Day to my fellow veterans. Thank you for your service and sacrifices for us!
Do you have a good theology of time?
From the world we learn that time is money: another day another dollar! Is that all it is—a utilitarian commodity used in bartering for economic goods?
From God’s Word, we learn that all time, every moment, is a gift from God for our good and His glory!
Numbers 28 and 29 invest 71 verses to review the Jewish calendar and highlight not only their major festivals, but also the sacred rhythms of ordinary time.
These two chapters are bookended together by a key theological concept that we find in Scripture: “at [the] appointed time”!
Numbers 28:2 starts,
“You shall be careful to present My offering, My food for My offerings by fire, of a soothing aroma to Me, at their appointed time.”
Numbers 29:39 ends,
“You shall present these to the Lord at your appointed times, besides your votive offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for your grain offerings and for your drink offerings and for your peace offerings.”
What is your theology of time?
Ecclesiastes 3:1 gives us an important starting point to answer this question:
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven.”
Very powerfully, Paul says in Galatians 4:4-5,
“But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.”
Every moment of your life is a providential opportunity to know God and to make Him known!
Seize the moment because every moment is a gift of God for your good and His glory!
God bless your day!
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