Today's Passage: Numbers 29-30
In the 80's classic TV show "The A Team", the famous catch phrase was "I love it when a plan comes together!" That's how I felt today when I opened my Bible to Numbers 29-30. All week long I've been preparing a sermon for Sunday on the last part of John 7 and studying the Feast of Tabernacles...and today my blog passage just happens to be on the Feast of Tabernacles! God must be doing something this week, bringing all these thoughts together.
The feasts described here...the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles...were all held in the seventh month of the year. This was the time between the harvest and the planting season, so it was a time when life moved a little slower. There wasn't the daily schedule that surrounded the growing season. God, as always, knew exactly what He was doing when He established these feasts of thanksgiving and reflection.
For many of us, this week marks the end of another school year. The daily schedule of getting kids out the door and then back in for homework, practice, or whatever else is replaced with a (slightly) slower pace. What a great time of year to make the time to reflect on God, thank Him for His provision, and prepare our hearts for Him to do something only He can do! What a great time to spend some time as a family on eternal things! I hope that we will use these summer months to offer something to God that is a "pleasing aroma" to Him.
Hope to see you Sunday...you'll learn much more about the Feast of Tabernacles, including why Jesus chose to claim He is the "living water" there. Much of the symbolism of John 7 is found in Numbers 29!
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