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The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 10 March 2023 – The Believer’s Words
TOPIC: The Believer’s Words
READ: Leviticus 27:1-25 (KJV)
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of israel and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation.
3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy.
10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
22 And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.
24 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
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THE MESSAGE:
Christians often make vows to dedicate something or someone to God. Some vows are made in cases of illness and danger, as thanksgiving for blessings received, or as a plea for God’s mercy. In our text today, the law simply ordained that a religious tax, according to age and sex, be paid for special vows. It is good to make vows but more important to fulfill them. The Psalmist advises, “Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them.” (Psalm 76:11). “Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? …He who keeps his oath even when it hurts” (Psalm 15:1-4). God commanded us to be watchful in fulfilling vows that are made to Him. The Scriptures advises us not to be hasty in making vows because those who refrain from fulfilling them are regarded as fools. It can also attract the destruction of the work of your hands (Ecclesiastes 5: 2-6).
The commitment to fulfill vows also applies to vows during weddings, admission into Church organizations, those made to people when we need some form of assistance, etc. When a believer in Christ says “Yes” or “No”, he has committed himself by saying so and must live in such a way that, his “Yes” always remains “Yes” and his “No” always remains “No.” Repent from making vows that you cannot fulfill.
PRAYER: Lord, please help me to be like You, in keeping to my words. Take away every form of falsehood from me. Amen.
