It Starts with You

It Starts with You

Leviticus 9:6-8 - Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”  Moses said to Aaron, “Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people; sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded. So Aaron come to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
          
  Aaron and his sons have just finished up doing everything that that Lord had asked them to do. Everything come down to this moment. The last thing Aaron had to do was publically make offerings for Himself and then the people.  I was wondering to myself, why did he have to make a public display of his sacrifice? After thinking about it, I think God was trying to show Aaron how to be humble himself before the people. But also, to show them that he identify himself with them.  Just because him and his sons were priests didn’t make them sin free. By showing the people that he was still a sinner. It made the people see that he was one with them, the only difference was that he was now the mediator for them before God. It was cool that God made him first make atonement for his own sin before he dealt with the people’s sins.  I think that can hold a lot of truth for us today.

The Christ follower must be the example. We need to humble ourselves to God and by doing that, we show the world that we relate with them on the level that we are all sinners and have fallen short of the glory of God. We must examine ourselves and make an atonement before the Lord before we start to help others. Our hearts have to be filled and humbled by God before we can pour out on others. It starts with you. Once our hearts are in that place before God He can use us to be a mediator to His people. He can use us to do whatever he has asked of us.

God has asked me to do a lot of things lately. He has asked me to correct my heart towards others. He has asked me to correct my attitude towards situations. He has asked me to not have a short temper. He has asked me to follow Him without question. But the biggest thing out of the short list of things I have here is, He has asked me to depend solely on Him. In doing that, it has humbled me a whole. It’s not easy to go against my sinful flesh but God prevails within me. My inward heart change allows me to be more forgiving with others, be slow to speak, be a servant, and do things with a joyful heart. My point in this ramble is that I have to look at my heart and set it right before God. By doing that enables me to pour into others because God is clear to direct me in their lives the way he wishes. My prayer is that God would search my heart and know me. And also, that he would remove the ME inside of me and input a fresh outpour of His Spirit. It starts with me before I can come to God to besiege for others behalf.
Application
Write on a note card ways to pray for a clean heart. And put it in my bibles to look at every day.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blessed

Blessed Deuteronomy 3:21 – “…Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done…” I am so blessed to have had the opportunity to serve in Costa Rica for these past 6 months.   God has shown me so many things that I will never forget. He has revealed to me the truth about myself that I have an attitude of complaining, pridefulness and laziness, all which needed to be strip away. He has displayed to me his promises of faithfulness, provision, fulfillment, renewal, and boldness. He has also allowed me to look through his eyes and experience his love that he has for all his children. Honestly, I don’t ever think that I would have experience that kind of love anywhere else. I can’t even explain it, it’s like complete joy and fulfillment. I don’t know, it’s crazy. That is something that I am going to bring back home with me, I am passionate about kids and loving on them the way the Lord loves me. This season was amazing but, what I have to remember is, that just because
Read more

Consistency

Consistency Romans 12:1-2 - Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. I am convinced that these verses is one of my overseer’s favorite to quote. I have heard it so much the past 6 months, that it’s pretty much now one of my favorites now as well. This section is talking about being a living sacrifice to the Lord. We are supposed to walk in holiness and in purity while we are on this earth.   Now that can be really hard, like really hard. Because that means we have to be consistently living a life that is set apart. This section doesn’t say “Do not conform to the pattern of this world”… SOMETIMES. No, it say, “Do not”. For example, why is it that we won’t
Read more
Wisdom 5 Ephesians 5:15-17 – See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. If we walk by godly wisdom, then it will help us determine what our purpose is. But there’s a few curve balls to this. Right here in this verse, it’s basically promising us that there are going to be hard days ahead. There is nothing we can do to prevent them but to stay faithful in your calling. The verse goes on and says, “Therefore.” Now this is a very important transition word. It letting us know that the next portion has something significant to say to us. And that is, DO NOT BE UNWISE. Plan and simple. Don’t do it. The bible tells us on many occasions to not be wise in your own worldly eyes. It also tells us that a fool will look at the world with his own eyes and not through the eyes of Christ. That is definitely a dangerous place to be. I bet your wondering what t
Read more