We All Have Our Part To Play - Ruminating in the Word of God

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Nehemiah 10:39,

"The people of Israel, including the Levites, are to bring their contributions of grain, new wine and olive oil to the storerooms, where the articles for the sanctuary and for the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the musicians are also kept.'We will not neglect the house of our God.'"

The Jews that returned to their homeland following the seventy-year captivity made an agreement and put it in writing. As a part of that agreement, they committed themselves to provide for the sanctuary, the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the musicians. They agreed to provide, through their own giving, for the "house of our God."

God has another house in this age. He has offered to all who will embrace him in faith to become a part of his kingdom, his family, his "spiritual house", see 1 Peter 2:5. We learn from the Scriptures that the purpose of this age, following the coming of his Son, his sacrifice on that cross for all sins of all mankind, is to provide the opportunity for all to join his family, to become a part of God's spiritual house.

As with the temple in Nehemiah's day, with its servants and the activities associated with the temple worship needing provision, so, likewise does God's spiritual house today. We are asked to financially support God's family in this age, the Church. We are asked to utilize special abilities God, in his grace, has blessed each of us with to invest in his spiritual house. We are also asked to invest our time in the building of God's house today.

The purpose of this age is to provide for the building of God's family, his kingdom. All who have embraced the Lord in faith have our part to play.

How important it is for each of us to identify where we fit into God's spiritual house and find what it is the Lord is expecting from each of us to help him build his family. Here we find our purpose and our opportunity to find the fulfillment and satisfaction to make our lives meaningful today.

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!

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