"It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites."
Numbers 25:13
Following orders is only part of what God desires. Even more than this, He desires a zealous heart - one who has a fiery energy in pursuing His perfection. In this case, Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was filled with the burning wrath of God and put to death one of the men who had brought a plague on Israel by sleeping with a Midianite woman and worshiping her gods.
But zeal does not always come in the form of violence. A zealous heart for the Lord may come in many forms: an energized preacher, an enthusiastic evangelist, an average man in his fervent study of the Word, etc.
Question of the Day:
What gets you excited about the Lord? When your heart is filled with zeal, how do your everyday actions change from the norm?
Prayer of the Day:
Bring me back to the state of zeal which I have been in many times before. Fill my heart with excitement about You and Your Word. Build within me an altar to You, which will burn perpetually and never stop encouraging me to be zealous. Amen.
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