Sun.’s Devo - Jesus, Our Light and Our Daily Bread

Read: Leviticus 24:1-25:46; Mark 10:13-31; Psalm 44:9-26; Proverbs 10:20-21
The priests do their duties to the constant light of the menorah. Every week they were to eat the shewbread which was offered to the Lord. The menorah is the light of God’s wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, authority and knowledge. That was theirs everyday just like we walk in that light every day. The shewbread was the Word of God that is our daily bread.
God could not tolerate blasphemous people and they had to be killed. The people who heard his words were to place their hands on him as testimony against him. The whole congregation was to stone him as one person in agreement.
Murder had to be punished and retribution had to be made for injuring someone or an animal. The blasphemer and murderer represent the devil and we must put him to death in our lives.
The land had to obey the laws of the Sabbath and rest the 7th year. Also on the fiftieth year, the Year of Jubilee, the land was to return to the original owner. Land was never sold for good. You were not buying land - you were buying harvests until the Year of Jubilee, then it would go back to the original owner. You paid according to the years remaining until the next Jubilee.
This was all to represent the fact that the Lord made earth and he is the original owner. We are just renting it till he returns in the Year of Jubilee. God told Moses that man would live to be 120. One Hundred and twenty Jubilees equals 6,000 years. We will be on the earth 6,000 years then the Lord will return to redeem it. A thousand years is as a day to the Lord so it is 6 days and he will cause the land to rest on the 7th. If this is true, the Lord should come back in 220 years according to the Jewish calendar. Let’s continue to work the land scattering seed and bringing in the harvest until then.
In Mark, Jesus addressed two groups of people: the children and the rich. The children came to him innocently and empty of anything they could bring to Jesus. He blessed them and wanted them around him. The rich man came to him full of good works. Jesus couldn’t give him anything because he already had everything he though he needed. Jesus, told him to get rid of his baggage of stuff so he would have room for God but he couldn’t do it. It had nothing to do with being rich or poor in the natural, it had everything with being rich or poor in the spirit. The children came to Jesus with only themselves and he received them. The rich man came with all his righteousness, and Jesus rejected him. The first shall be last and the last shall be first. Nothing we give up in this life time will not be given to us in the next.
Lord, we come empty to you because you are the only one who can satisfy our soul. You light our path and give us your Word as our bread. We are satisfied in you.