December 9, 2023

Passage Read: Exodus 19-22
Meditation Verse: 19:5

Thought

This is what God says of believers today, that we are being made into a kingdom of priests and a holy people! Israel was to be the same by walking in obedience to His commands, by being a people who exercised God's justice and loved their neighbor as themselves and worshiped God alone. If they obeyed His voice and kept His covenant, they would be God's own possession out of all the peoples of the earth, though all the earth belonged to Him. They would be priests in that they would be able to teach all other people who the Lord is and how to live before Him. They would be a holy people by walking in obedience to God's commands. Through them, all nations could come to know the Lord.

Application

Where Israel failed because of their hardened hearts, God intends for Christians to succeed. We have new hearts upon which He writes His Law. We have His Spirit dwelling in us to guide and empower is us to obey. We are to be priests, teaching all the other nations to walk in God's ways, and we are to be a holy people who walk ourselves in His ways. What He intended for Israel to be by walking in His ways, He is making Believers into, and we are not supposed to fail!