Looking into the light

February 27, 2009

Numbers 8:2 DRB
(2) Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the loaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.

As Aaron went into the tabernacle for the first time he was given instruction on what he was to do. He was to light the candles so that the light would go forward. In going forward, it was to light the area of the Ark of the Covenant, the area where God was to reside. All behind it was to be in darkness.

Aaron represented the people. He was the one to come to God to ask for mercy, to give the offerings to God for the sins of the people. He was to come from the darkness into the light.

We as humans these many years later have not changed much at all. We are in the darkness. We have been given a chance to move out of that darkness and into the light of God through the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus. Once we see the light we should never again return to the darkness.

Are you in the light or in the dark?

Read through the Bible in one year in Historical order
Today
Numbers 8:1-10:36
Tomorrow
Take a rest, it is leap year day. We will do another devotional from today's reading

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