Read: Deuteronomy 26:1-27:26; Luke 10:38-11:13; Psalm 76:1-12; Proverbs 12:15-17
I wondered why first fruits was not mentioned when the feasts were talked about but it was because First Fruits was a feast of the promise land. When you have no land you can’t have any first fruits. So, today, God gave them the law about the First Fruit festival. By the third year they would have their fields producing and ready to give to the Lord. A tenth was to be set aside for the Levite, the fatherless and the widows so they would be taken care of.
When they crossed the Jordan, they were to set up some large stones that they coated with white plaster and wrote the law on them. They were to set them up on Mt. Ebal. Half of the tribes would stand on Mt. El and pronounce the curses of the law and the other half of the tribes would stand on Mt. Gerizim and pronounce the blessings. First they did the curses. It is a choice which mountain we want to live on. Looking at the curses the way to avoid them is just to put the Lord first and honor all people. Sounds a lot like the same thing Jesus said in Mark 12:30-31.
We can all relate with Martha and Mary. It is much easier to do than to be still. It is our nature to try to make things happen and work when God desires most that we be still and wait on Him.
God promises to give us as much as we need. All we have to do is ask, seek and knock.
Lord, we choose to live in the blessings. We pray for discernment to know when we are unknowingly choosing the curses.
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