Mon.’s Devo - The Cost

Read: Deut. 16:1-17:20, Luke 9:7-27, Ps. 72:1-20, Pr. 12:8-9 The feasts were given as rehearsals for God’s great apearings. Three times a year the children of Israel were to come to Jerusalem. The first was during the feast of passover which included unleavened bread and first fruits. Jesus fulfilled this by coming to earth as a man. The second time they were to come to Jerusalem was during the feast of pentecost or weeks. God fulfilled this by coming in the form of the Holy Spirit. The last time the people were to come to Jerusalem was during the feast of tabernacles which included the feast of trumpets and the day of atonement. This will be fulfilled when Jesus comes back again. The people speculated who Jesus might be. Some thought He was John the Baptist that had risen from the dead, some thought He was Elijah, but Jesus was only concerned with what His disciples thought. They thought he was the son of God. Jesus warned them of the suffering He would have to go through and that they also would have to endure because they called themselves his disciples. Only one of them sold out. Though the others didn’t understand all that Jesus was telling them, God gave them the grace when the time came. God does that for us too. There is nothing that happens to us that He doesn’t first prepare us for then give us the grace to go through it. Lord, you deliver the needy who cry out, and the afflicted who have no one to help. May the whole earth be filled with Your glory.