Seize the Moment – Day 652

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29
Dec '21

Seize the Moment – Day 652

Posted on Dec 29, 2021 by Jerry Ingalls in Devotions, General |

29
Dec '21

A Farmer’s Liturgy!

Deuteronomy 26

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, December 29.

 

What are your rhythms of giving thanks to God? To demonstrate your dependency upon God as the giver of all good gifts (James 1:17), what words do you say and what practical gestures of gratitude do you make?

 

Deuteronomy 26:1-19 records the farmer’s liturgy for the giving of the annual tithe of their crop. The farmer was required to travel to a specified location with the first fruits of his crop in a basket, and present the offering to the priest, saying,
 
“I declare this day to the Lord my God that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us” (3).
 
Upon the priest receiving it and placing it before the altar of God, the farmer would say before God,

 

My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation. And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us. Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders; and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, O Lord have given me (5-10).

 

God required rhythms of formal worship (liturgies) to remind them of His mighty deeds and to call them to a shared life of faith and purpose as His “treasured possession” (16-19).

 

Seize the moment and build rhythms of formal worship into your life! You are shaped by your life of devotion!

God bless you!
 
 
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