This morning is a special morning, today begins the Feast of the Firstfruits! Read Deuteronomy 26:1-10. The Feast of the Firstfruits is when the farmers of Israel would take the first fruits of the field and offer them to God as a way of showing their trust in God’s provision.
Read John 12:23-24 and journal your thoughts
This was the context for Resurrection Sunday, imagine once again how Jesus’ followers must have felt yesterday as they attended Sabbath services. How they listened to Ezekiel 37:5, about how God raises the dead, all the while their Messiah is dead. All hope is lost. The next day, they would bring the very first of their crops as an offering to God, which was a way of showing their trust that God provides. Just like when God provided the ram when Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac, so God was going to provide for his people again.
But little did the people know, this Feast of the Firstfruits was going to be very different from the ones before it. God had provided again, just not in the way they were expecting. Firstfruits represented not just giving their first, but their best. A sheep’s first sheer was its softest or its best, the first crops of the year was considered to be the best. On this Firstfruits, God gives his first, his best, as a way of providing for His people.
Today meditate on the ways that God provides for you, and take some time to thank God for His provisions.
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