Scripture
15 When this offering is given to the Lord to purify your lives, making you right with him, the rich must not give more than the specified amount, and the poor must not give less. (Ex 30:15)
Observation
I continue to find it awesome that even before Israel was a nation, the rules God set for them all pointed to Jesus. In this passage, He was talking of a silver coin to be given in ransom for their lives; in order to make them right with Him. But it was a flat fee. It didn’t matter how rich or how poor, the fee was the same.
Application
When Jesus fulfilled the law, he became the “silver coin” (along with a bunch of other metaphors). He became the flat fee entrance to God. It doesn’t matter how rich or how poor we are; if we’ve sinned greatly or minimally. We can’t do more to make our spot “secure” and we can’t do any less. Jesus is all we need.
That doesn’t mean we don’t strive to do more, it just means our entrance fee is paid for.
Prayer
Thank-you, God for planning our world way at the very beginning. You knew what you were doing and even though it appears to be all “going to hell in a hand basket” You are in control. Thank-you, Jesus for paying our entrance fee, even though it cost so much more than a silver coin.
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