YEAR 2, WEEK 7, Day 5, Friday, 14 February 2025

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Observations from today’s readings and today’s S-WOD, Friday, 14 February 2025:

Listen to the late Dr. J. Vernon McGee explain the sacrifices in Leviticus 2 and how they point to Jesus Christ — https://www.blueletterbible.org/audio_video/popPlayer.cfm?id=4058&rel=mcgee_j_vernon/Lev

Leviticus 2:4, 5 – When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil. And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil.

Unleavened bread symbolized purity, and oil symbolizes the Holy Spirit. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice, wholly pure, and full of the Holy Spirit. (see Ephesians 5:2) Christians should strive to offer their lives to the Lord, pure and full of the Holy Spirit.

The grain offering is a great representation of our service to God: “This meal offering was the work of men’s hands, of the fruits of the ground, the result of cultivation, manufacture, and preparation; and it was the symbol of service offered.” (G. Campbell Morgan) God gives us salvation, His Spirit, and His word, but we must do something with it. We must cultivate it and share it. We serve God when we take what God has given us, our passions, talents, skills, abilities, resources, and opportunities, and use them purely, meticulously, and wholly for His glory and for the benefit of others. We can do nothing without God, but if we do nothing, it will be without God.

Leviticus 2:12, 13 – As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the Lord, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma. You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

We are the first fruits, not burnt in the fire, seasoned with salt. (see James 1:18)

“Cross” Fit S-WOD (Spiritual Workout of the Day) – 14 February 2025: Focus, today, on serving the LORD by using all that He has given you to share the love of Christ with others as an act of love and worship.