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Leviticus chapter 9, verse 22,

then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them.

I'm just going to stop right there.

This verse goes on, but just get this picture of Aaron as priest, lifting up his hands

toward the people and blessing them. And we see this at different points in Leviticus and numbers

in different places in scripture where the priests pray a blessing over God's people.

They literally work for the good, for the blessing of God's people.

And I just, I picture this in Leviticus 9 and then I think about how God has made.

Followers of Jesus, a holy

priesthood. And that means a lot of different things, but certainly one of those things is we are

consecrated, appointed, anointed by God to be a blessing, certainly to his people, to build up other brothers and sisters in Christ,

to be a channel, a conduit of God's blessing toward others, certainly in the church.

And then beyond the church, I think about Romans chapter 15

when Paul is talking about his passion to spread the gospel among the unreached, my people who've

never heard the gospel, Gentiles who are unreached by it, who don't know the name of Jesus.

And he says, God has given me grace to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles

in the, listen to this, priestly service of the gospel of God.

Paul views himself as a priest standing between God and unreached people, people without Christ,

and saying, I want to be a channel, a conduit of God's

blessing by spreading the gospel to them. And I just want to encourage you to see your life today

this way. You are certainly a recipient of God's blessing. Oh, I'm a recipient of God's blessing, the privilege of being a priest

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