“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you” (Ex 12:2). As a new year begins, may we enter fully into the high privilege of our relationship in the Lord Jesus Christ. “You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Pet 2:5). Built up to offer up spiritual sacrifices—that must be first. Let us resolve to begin each day in the honest and real personal enjoyment of fellowship with the Lord. Then Peter adds: “But you are…a royal priesthood…that you should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvellous light” (v 9). We are to go forth and show forth the excellencies of our Savior to those still in the dark. Both as worshippers and witnesses, we have the high honor of lifting up heaven’s lovely Man. As Samuel Rutherford wrote: “Christ possessed by faith here is young heaven and glory in the bud.”
Today’s Reading: Genesis 1-3 Memorize: Genesis 1:27; 2:7