Apr 2009
Awards
22.04.09 22:32 Filed in: Life
Tonight was the second
annual 180 Awards... this is a night we do to
celebrate the great choices people are making with
their lives. I wanted to share a couple of
reflections from the night.
I was reading in Exodus a few minutes ago and came across an interesting verse so I looked it up in the KJV.
Exodus 16:33-34 [KJV] And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Now let me give you a few notes about this verse that are interesting to me. 1) An omer is a tenth of an ephah--approximately a tenth of eight gallons. I just think it’s interesting that God would tell Moses who delegated to Aaron to set aside a tenth of the manna they were given. 2)They took that omer of manna and “laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.”
Testimony in this verse is not referring to the ark of the testimony (ark of the covenant). Honestly I have not done enough homework on this to know any other representation that this could be except for the fact that testimony in this verse literally means: to bear witness or evidence. So this manna was set aside to bear witness as evidence of what God did for generations to come. It was a silent reminder of who God is and what He has done.
Here is my point. Tonight was successful not just because we had a Christian outreach and 40-50 people gave their lives to the Lord. But tonight we honored people who have laid up their lives before the Testimony. See we give testimony’s but tonight was a night to honor living testimonies. People who don’t have to use words but their lives are a testimony, a silent reminder, of who God is in their life. This post is a shout out to all the winners, to all the nominees, and mostly this is a shout out to everyone who was neither... It takes only the truest of living testimonies to actually be happy for someone else who is being honored. To those who looked past their insecurities and possible jealousy’s of the winners and nominees, you were the true heroes and living testimonies this evening, Congratulations!
I was reading in Exodus a few minutes ago and came across an interesting verse so I looked it up in the KJV.
Exodus 16:33-34 [KJV] And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Now let me give you a few notes about this verse that are interesting to me. 1) An omer is a tenth of an ephah--approximately a tenth of eight gallons. I just think it’s interesting that God would tell Moses who delegated to Aaron to set aside a tenth of the manna they were given. 2)They took that omer of manna and “laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.”
Testimony in this verse is not referring to the ark of the testimony (ark of the covenant). Honestly I have not done enough homework on this to know any other representation that this could be except for the fact that testimony in this verse literally means: to bear witness or evidence. So this manna was set aside to bear witness as evidence of what God did for generations to come. It was a silent reminder of who God is and what He has done.
Here is my point. Tonight was successful not just because we had a Christian outreach and 40-50 people gave their lives to the Lord. But tonight we honored people who have laid up their lives before the Testimony. See we give testimony’s but tonight was a night to honor living testimonies. People who don’t have to use words but their lives are a testimony, a silent reminder, of who God is in their life. This post is a shout out to all the winners, to all the nominees, and mostly this is a shout out to everyone who was neither... It takes only the truest of living testimonies to actually be happy for someone else who is being honored. To those who looked past their insecurities and possible jealousy’s of the winners and nominees, you were the true heroes and living testimonies this evening, Congratulations!
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