Present a burnt offering to the LORD, an odor pleasing to him.

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: NUMBERS 29:2A
Present a burnt offering to the LORD, an odor pleasing to him.
TODAY'S READING:
The Offerings at the New Year Festival
(Leviticus 23.23-25)
1On the first day of the seventh month you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done. On that day trumpets are to be blown.2Present a burnt offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.3Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with the bull, 4 pounds with the ram,4and 2 pounds with each lamb.5Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and in this way perform the ritual of purification for the people.6Offer these in addition to the regular burnt offering for the first day of the month with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering. These food offerings are an odor pleasing to the Lord.
The Offerings at the Day of Atonement
(Leviticus 23.26-32)
7 Gather for worship on the tenth day of the seventh month; eat no food and do no work.8Offer a burnt offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.9Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with the bull, 4 pounds with the ram,10and 2 pounds with each lamb.11Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the goat offered in the ritual of purification for the people, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.
REFLECT:
How is the New Year Festival described? What offerings were to be made on the Day of Atonement? What special rituals take place within your community of faith?
#PRAY
Gracious and loving God, I offer you my humble heart this day as an offering to you. Your mercies are new each day. Thank you for new beginnings and opportunities to be a reflection of your grace. Amen.