Read: Ezekiel 45:13-46; 1 Peter 1:13-2:10; Psalm 119:33-48; Proverbs 28:11
I have to remind myself that Ezekiel is seeing all of this in a vision. Today we read the special gift that the princes of Israel are to offer. All of the people of the land were to participate in this offering. They were to give grain, oil, and sheep for the Passover week. The prince would offer these gifts to make atonement for the people. Jesus is our Prince of Peace who invites us to salvation by the sacrifice of his own blood. Our only participation is that we believe and appropriate his blood for our sins. Our sacrifice is ourselves.
I love verse 10 that says that the prince would be among them, going in when they go in and going out when they go out. That is the presence of the Holy Spirit that is with us all the time.
He explains the difference of being a servant or a son. Sons are believers who are born again into the kingdom of God. Servants are people who have not been born again. They still live in the blessings God has created but they won’t receive the inheritance stored up for God’s children. God’s children’s inheritance will be passed down to their children. The gifts God gives you will be passed down to your children and your grandchildren. The blessing of an inheritance is that it grows and becomes more and more valuable with time. I always pray that my spiritual ceiling will be my children’s floor.
Peter tells us to be self-controlled which begins in our conscious minds. We have to decide to make the right choices. He commands us to be holy because God is holy. We are to live as strangers on the earth because our home is not here but with the Lord. We purify ourselves by believing the truth. This will make us love others and we won’t want to do anything to hurt anyone. Our lives are so short so we should want to walk in maturity and do the most we can for the Lord before we are taken to heaven.
God calls us a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God that we may declare the praises of him who called us out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Lord, thank you for your salvation and our inheritance in you.
Happy Thanksgiving! I pray that you have a blessed day with your family being thankful for all God has done for us!
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