You Have Been our Home

You Have Been our Home

"Our Lord, in all generations you have been our home.” Psalm 90:1

During my late elementary school years, and into junior high, my family lived in Alhambra, CA, part of the East Los Angeles suburbs. In a lower middle class neighborhood, clapboard houses were the books and apartment buildings the bookends of each block. It was a great place to grow up, with a peculiar mix of Caucasian and Latino families. Our school was just up the block with its asphalt playground and covered lunch area. Around the block we spent our dimes and quarters on candy at the drug store and sodas at the little hamburger shack.

Righteous, dude!

“Since, then, we are made righteous through faith, let us enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:1

“Righteous, dude!” Yes, the surfer slang doesn’t come close to what the Scriptures mean by “righteous”. But, on second thought, maybe it conveys the feeling one has upon realizing they have absolutely been “made righteous” in God’s sight.

God's Food?

“Make sure to offer to me my offering, my food, my food gift as a soothing smell to me at its appointed time.” Numbers 28:2

God speaks as if the offerings we give Him are His “food”. The people were commanded to bring animal offerings which were burned on the altar at designated times. Every day of the year two male lambs were brought, and on every Sabbath two additional lambs. An offering consisting of two bulls, one ram, seven male lambs, and one male goat was brought the first day of the month. Passover and additional feasts had their own sacrifices.