December 2, 2024 - Exodus‬ ‭30‬:‭7‬-‭9‬

“Every morning when Aaron maintains the lamps, he must burn fragrant incense on the altar. And each evening when he lights the lamps, he must again burn incense in the Lord’s presence. This must be done from generation to generation. Do not offer any unholy incense on this altar, or any burnt offerings, grain offerings, or liquid offerings.” Exodus 30:7-9 NLT

Lord, this is one of the things that you declared for the Levites to do in the tabernacle as worship to you. Today our worship to you might look different, but you are no less worthy. We want to give our lives as an incense offering to you. Just like they were instructed not to offer any unholy thing to you, we don’t want to offer anything to you that is unholy. We praise you for your forgiveness. We praise you for your blood that washes our sins away and makes us white as snow. It is only through your blood that we can be made holy. We praise you for your sacrifice and your blood. How wonderful you are to us. You are so worthy of our everything. We want to lay down every aspect of our lives to you. We surrender all. Let your will be done in us. You can have our past and our future. You can have our dreams and our plans. We give you our families. We will lay down any possession. We lay down our jobs and our accomplishments. We lay down our selfishness and our sinful desires. We come to you with open hands and hearts, it all belongs to you. There is nothing that you don’t deserve.

Holy Spirit, we invite you into every aspect of our lives. Lead and guide us. Help us surrender whatever you ask of us. Reveal sin to us and give us your power to overcome it. Do your work in us. Purify us. Make our lives a pure and holy incense offering to you. Help us to live in a way that our lives are a constant burning incense to you. For you, our Lord, are worthy.

In Jesus name, amen.