Don’t Let The Fire Go Out of The Altar
“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place. And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.” (Leviticus 6:8-13)
Today’s Morsel: Part of the duties of the priesthood was to ensure that the lights were to always be burning in the tabernacle, they were to request fresh oil for the lamps daily, they were to determine if the sacrifices were holy or unholy, if the leaper was clean or unclean, and not to touch anything that would pollute them, and they were to ensure that the fire never went out of the altar. These were instructions handed down by God, through Moses, for the priesthood to stand in His stead. The altar was to always be burning to consume the sacrifices which were offered for sin. Each of us must have our own altars burning as we are now the priesthood of God. Peter says, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:” (1 Peter 2:9) Daily we present ourselves on our altars so that the fire of the Holy Gh0st is burning to consume any sins which we may have committed. Our lives must be kept pure and holy for Christ. But if we allow the fire to go out in our altars, because we are no longer praying, worshipping, reading our Bibles, and witnessing, then we will soon become depressed and weighed down by our sins and lose out with God. So don’t let the fire go out of the altar. Keep putting another log on the fire.
Sing: Anointing, fall on me; anointing fall on me. Let the power of the Holy Ghost, fall on me; anointing fall on me.
Thought For Today: Don’t stop praying.
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