Pure Holy Incense - Ingredients for Incense - 3 (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you so much for the opportunity to come to you and spend these few moments in the word and prayer. This week, we are looking at the pure and holy incense that God had instructed the high priest to offer in the Most holy place and trying to understand what that means for us. We mentioned that God had said that when you make that incense, there are four important ingredients you put into it in equal measure. So, they brought these four resins and blended them together and in addition to it, this is necessarily not an ingredient but part of the composition, God said there has to be salt added along with these four ingredients that make up the incense. Salt in the bible is used in other places. For instance, in Leviticus chapter 2, verse 13, it is used to talk about covenant. When people made a covenant, they made a covenant of salt or they exchanged salt as token of that covenant. Salt is used in the bible to talk about purity and preservation. We understand in Mathew chapter 5, Jesus said, you are the salt of the earth, talking about purity and preservation. So, God said, when you are making this incense, of course, it had the four important ingredients but into that salt was added, indicating to us that this incense/ sacrifice that was offered to God from the alter of incense was based upon covenant and it was based on purity and it was something that had to be preserved/ kept that way, kept in covenant and kept pure so that it could be sacred- incense that was pure and holy that was to be offered to God. Think about this, that when we go into the presence of God to offer up our incense which is our prayer and worship to God, it is based on our covenant with God and it is to be kept pure and preserved pure that way. We will talk more about this because God was very specific saying it shouldn’t be in any way contaminated, nothing strange offered. So, the incense that we offer, the worship and prayer we offer to God is based on our covenant with God, the relationship that undergirds this offering and it is kept pure, preserved and protected and our worship of God must be kept sacred, holy and pure incense. So, may we maintain this in our own lives of worship and prayer before God, understanding how God wants us to worship and engage in prayer in His presence.

Let’s close in prayer, Father, we thank you for the insights we gain from what you have given your people in the Old Testament. We thank you that as we offer our incense to you, it is based on covenant and you have called us to keep it pure and preserve it pure and sacred as unto you. Help us to do this, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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