TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: NUMBERS 29:12B

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: NUMBERS 29:12B
Celebrate this festival in honor of the LORD for seven days and do no work.
TODAY'S READING:
The Offerings at the Festival of Shelters
(Leviticus 23.33-44)
12 Gather for worship on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Celebrate this festival in honor of the Lord for seven days and do no work.13On this first day offer a food offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.14Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with each bull, 4 pounds with each ram,15and 2 pounds with each lamb, with the required wine offerings.16Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. Offer these in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.
17On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.18-19Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
20On the third day offer eleven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.21-22Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
23On the fourth day offer ten young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.24-25Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
26On the fifth day offer nine young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.27-28Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
29On the sixth day offer eight young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.30-31Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
32On the seventh day offer seven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.33-34Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
35On the eighth day gather for worship and do no work.36Offer a burnt offering as a food 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.37-38Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
39These are the regulations concerning the burnt offerings, grain offerings, wine offerings, and fellowship offerings that you are to make to the Lord at your appointed festivals. These are in addition to the offerings you give in fulfillment of a vow or as freewill offerings.
40So Moses told the people of Israel everything that the Lord had commanded him.
REFLECT:
Today’s reading describes the offerings that were to be made on each of the seven days of the festival. What were these offerings? Based on the readings from the book of Numbers these past four days, how important were these offerings to the Israelites in daily life, worship, and special festivals? How important in daily life are offerings, worship, and religious ceremonies today?
#PRAY
Lord God, daily will I praise you and thank you for your everlasting love, mercy, and care. Order my steps this day, and may my life be a living sacrifice of service to you. Amen.