Topic: Let the Fire Fall [Monday April 13, 2015]
Text: Leviticus 9:17-24
Key Verse: “And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces” (Leviticus 9:24).
The mention of “fire” generally elicits scary feelings. Anyone who has witnessed the gutting of a building by fire will definitely feel so. But fire is very vital to our survival. Apart from its primary uses for warming, cooking and lighting, fire plays a fundamental role in the generation of electricity that we use every day. Yet, in God’s economy, fire plays another unique role – it symbolizes God’s presence, power and purity.
Today’s text captures one of those occasions where God manifested His presence through fire. Aaron and his sons had just been consecrated as high priest and priests respectively after seven days of purification. On the eighth day, they, under the instruction of Moses, started their priestly functions by offering various sacrifices for sin offering, burnt offering and peace offerings to the Lord. When Moses and Aaron came out from the temple, they blessed the congregation of Israel.
After this, God manifested His glory before the people and caused fire to consume the sacrifice on the altar, signalling acceptance of their offerings and approval of the whole process as His will. Nothing can be more delightful than to know that your offering to God has been accepted or having His approval in whatever you do. Among other instances, God confirmed the acceptance of Abraham’s sacrifice by a flaming touch, commissioned Moses in a burning bush and answered Elijah by fire. Notice that the fire that consumed the sacrifice here was not contrived by man as obtained in most modern church altars that lack God’s presence, power and purity.
Christ baptizes with the Holy Ghost and fire. Beyond this experience, it should be our goal, in every fellowship or sacrificial service rendered in the name of the Lord, to ensure that He is satisfied with us. We must do everything in His own way and with pure motives to receive divine approval.
Bible in One Year: Psalm 78-79
Thought for The Day: Endeavour to get God’s fire of approval.
DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
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