DAILY READINGS: Num. 25:1-26:51; Prov. 22:17- 23:11; Luke 1:26-56
You shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses…to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes. Deuteronomy 12:5-6 (NKJV)
Here is God’s desire for worship. The people (the Jews), the place (Jerusalem), and the procedure (offerings and tithes) are carefully prescribed. For us, suitable worship has also been decreed by the Lord (1 Cor. 11:20-31): the people (believers with sins confessed), the place (the local church), and the procedure (the breaking of bread). Though corporate worship is not constrained to the Lord’s Supper, remembering the Lord in the way He said is foundational. —W. A. H.
How happy are Thy servants, Lord, who thus remember Thee!
What tongue can tell our sweet accord, our perfect harmony? —C. Wesley