Saturday 1 Jan 2022

January 1: Numbers 6:22-27

Key Verse: Number 6:25
the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;

Devotion:
Many people will go to extraordinary lengths to get a blessing from a priest – just take the gatherings in the Vatican or other religious places where people gather. So why don’t we see the same sort of crowds in each of our churches all around the world? We don’t because many people have a very shallow belief which does not inspire them or others to worship God as He should be worshipped!

If you have not yet set a New Year’s resolution, maybe you should be willing to promise to share God’s Word with one other person (minimum!) God gave direction to Moses to do many things – here we have a simple command to tell the young priests (Aaron and his sons) to bless the people openly when they came to worship.

If you go to a church where the priest or other leader is going to ask for a blessing or to say a blessing over you, then you are going somewhere where they at least keep one commandment going! We really should be sharing God’s Word with others and showing them how much God thinks of them and how He is willing to bless them no matter what they have done in their pasts.

God made this promise to Moses a very long time ago and continues to uphold this promise for us to be His people and for us to receive a blessing from God when someone says so! God came to show us how this happens by giving us a blessing in the shape of His Son which is going to stand for as long as God says so. Since He is not bound by time, but only by when He says He will return – we can depend on these blessings every day!

Points to Ponder:
Do you long for God to bless you?

How often do you praise and worship Him?