“Who am I to be able to serve God, let alone to represent God and mediate his blessings?” This may well be your natural response to the fact that we are called to be priests of God to the world (as all God’s people are in Exodus 19:6 and 1 Peter 2:9). A priest, in Old Testament times, was someone who belonged to the family of Aaron and whose job it was to mediate the blessings of God to the people. Today we understand that it is every Christian’s privilege to be the agent of Christ’s blessings in the world. The thing that tends to paralyse us from confidently fulfilling our role is our sense of unworthiness. The solution to this was already built into the understanding of priesthood right here in Exodus 29. Priests were not chosen because of their qualifications. They were chosen because of their relationship to a forefather with whom God made a covenant. They were consecrated in a way that demonstrated that God was choosing them in spite of their spiritual disqualifications, not in view of any spiritual qualifications. The consecration ceremony for the priests involved a sacrifice that declared that God was covering over their unworthiness. You are chosen to be a priest of God, not based on your spiritual qualifications, but based on your relationship to Christ, with whose blood the new covenant was sealed. There is therefore nothing that can disqualify you from serving God and being used by him. You must simply entrust your life to him and his purpose.
Think about how you can fulfil your role as an agent of God’s blessing today.
Read Exodus 29
