Day 25, March

Start With Praise

Through Him, therefore, let us constantly and at times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. Hebrews 13:15

Moses rose early in the morning, built an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings to God. Then he prayed and read the Book of the Covenant

(Exodus 24:1-7) The Lord said to Moses, " Come up the mountain to me, you and Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the leaders oif Israel; and while you are still some distance away, bow down in worshi. You alone, and none of the others, are to come near me. The people are not even to come up the mountain." Moses went and told the people answered together, " We will do everything that the Lord has said." Moses wrote down all the Lord's commands. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foo of one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he sent young men, and they burnt sacrifices to the Lord and sacrificed some cattle as fellowship-offerings. Moses took half the blood of the animals and put it in bowls; and the other half he threw against the altar. Then he took the book of the covenant, in which the Lord's commands were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said, " We will obey the Lor and do everything that he has commanded."

Thankfully, God no longer asks us to build an altar out of rocks, slaughter a bull, drain its blood, and build a fire in order to honor Him with a burnt sacrifice.

God doesn't want a dead sacrifice anymore. He wants us, living sacrifices, full of zeal to serve Him each day. All we have to do is wake up and say, "Thank You, Lord. I give You the sacrifice of praise. I give You myself, a living sacrifice, ready to live for You today."


**Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path**