“Take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. “~ Lv. 6:10
When I was a boy we lived in a two-story wood frame house that was literally decaying throughout. It was heated by a coal/wood burning stove in the midst of our front room. I remember my dad regularly carrying out the ashes. Those ashes represented something that had served their purpose, something that was no longer useful. Their removal made a way for something new, and in the case of the Old Testament altar, a fresh sacrifice.
Far too many of God’s children, I think, are “Feeding on ashes” (Isa. 44:2): past blessings, past experiences, past miracles, past prayers, etc. These are all, at present, ashes so to speak. What is needed is something new and fresh on the altar of our lives. If we do offer up a fresh sacrifice of our lives we will find God will, after He has accepted and consumed the offering, “Give [us]...beauty for ashes” (Isa. 61:3). But remember, it’s a daily thing.
The wounds in Jesus' earthly body remained in His glorified body after His resurrection (Jn. 20:27). And they will be manifested to His elect when He returns to earth a second time (Zech. 13:6). And so it goes without saying, that He has them now in heaven sitting at the Father’s right hand making intercession for us. John the Beloved said when beholding Him in glory that he saw a freshly slain Lamb (Rev. 5:6). He is always “new” and “living” when we come to Him! (Heb. 10:19-20)
“The ash heap Job sat on turned into marvelous blessings in the end.”~ rds
by an Old Disciple
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