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Radical.net. Numbers chapter 28, verse 8. Like the grain offering of the morning and like its drink offering, you shall offer it

as a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. So this section in numbers describes all kinds

of different offerings that God's people would give in worship to God. And the phrase I want to hone in on and lead us to pray according to is that the end of

verse 8 here, where this food offering is described as having a pleasing aroma to the

Lord.

And what a picture of worship that before God is like an aroma that brings pleasure to God.

That really does describe the essence of true worship. True worship is offering that which is pleasing to God, honoring to God, glorifying to God.

And here in numbers, it's a list of all kinds of different offerings.

But I think about Romans chapter 12.

When I picture this pleasing aroma to God, when Paul writes, I appeal to you, brothers, by the

mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice is an offering, holy and acceptable

to God, pleasing to God, which is your spiritual worship. And this is where these verses and numbers and these offerings that we don't give in the same way today

are such a helpful picture for us.

Because, yes, we don't give the food offering and the drink offering in the same way.

We give our bodies as an offering to God in a way that would be pleasing to Him.

And I just want to encourage you to think about your life today in this way.

What would it look like to live all day today as an offering that is pleasing to God?

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