Exodus 29:38-46
38 “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day continually. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. 40 With the one lamb shall be one-tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord. 42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet you to speak with you. 43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory. 44 So I will consecrate the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me as priests. 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.
The sacrifices included lambs at morning and as the sun went down each day, showing that every day should begin and end with lives given to God, even as by fire. These offerings were given in front of where God met them and spoke with them, and we can echo this now by a morning devotional and an evening reflection on God with His person and work in Christ. This meditation should also challenge us to consider if we are truly living sacrifices as Romans 12:1 describes our response to His mercies each day (they are new every morning). His house, the tabernacle where He now abides, is our body; it must be consecrated to Him as our reasonable ministry to serve Him, and this is to be in holiness through daily sacrifice (1 Corinthians 15:31, Luke 9:23) of our lives lived now for His glory. We are all priests to God in Christ, for He is our God who dwells among us as Spirit and so enables us to serve Him. We now know Him who is our Lord, who delivered us from the bondage of sin as foreshadowed in Israel’s deliverance from Egypt’s enslavement, and He delivered us in order to live within His people and not just around them anymore! He is the Lord our God who saves us from the wrath to come (1 Thessalonians 1:10) by undeserving mercy in grace. Let us be the daily sacrifice.
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