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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Numbers 18:20-32
The LORD adds to all the gifts He has just given to Aaron and to his family the most excellent of all (vv. 1-19): He gives Himself to be shared by all His own. "I am thy part and thine inheritance", He says in v. 20. "The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup" — "God is . . . my portion for ever", reply David and Asaph respectively (Psalms 16:5 and Psalms 73:26). Is not the choicest gift God has given us His own Son? And if Christ is our lot, what more can we wish for whilst still on earth? May we realise with the Levites that we have no other inheritance, no other real possession down here. On the other hand we have everything in Heaven since we have Jesus there.
The Israelite was required to pay a tithe on his income for the service of the sanctuary (Leviticus 27:30). These tithes made provision for the needs of the Levites who had neither threshing-floor nor winepress (v. 30), nor land to grow crops. But they were not thereby deprived of having their share of goods. In their turn the Levites gave a tithe of all they received.
We can happily sum up ch. 18 by the grand statement in the New Testament: "All are yours, and ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s" (1 Corinthians 3:22-23).
