Seize the Moment – Day 920
Finding Jesus in the Details!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, September 23.
You’ve heard it said that the devil is in the details, but I tell you that you don’t need to be looking for him; rather, you need to be looking for Jesus, who desires to be found in even the smallest details of your life.
In 1 Chronicles 24, King David was flexing his administrative muscles to organize the priests into divisions. Significantly, he did so by casting lots to determine the order of the divisions for the twenty-four priestly households (5-18). Providentially, which is what casting lots presupposes, we find an interesting foreshadowing of God’s plan of salvation in the order of the eighth and ninth divisions, described in verses 10b-11a, “the eighth for Abijah, the ninth for Jeshua.”
“Jeshua” is the Hebrew name Joshua, which means, “The Lord is salvation.” From the Hebrew, into the Greek, then into the English, we get the name of “Jesus” (Luke 1:31). While Jeshua was a very common name, the one that came before it was not – “Abijah,” and here is where we find the foreshadowing.
The division of Abijah is highlighted in Luke 1:5, “In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.” This is the birth narrative of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus. He was of the priestly line of Abijah! In the administrative details of 1 Chronicles 24, an event that happened nearly one thousand years before their births, we hear, “Behold, I send My messenger ahead of you, who will prepare Your way” (Mark 1:2).
Seize the moment and find Jesus in the smallest details of your life! There is no person or place too trivial in all of creation through whom God doesn’t want to lift up the name of Jesus.
God bless you!
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