Tuesday, March 27, 2007

La Mañana The Morning


Lea Salmo 5:1-12


Reunirnos en la mañana con Dios es imperativo si queremos tener un buen día. Jesús se levantaba temprano en la mañana a orar según Marco 1:35. Aquí vemos que el salmista dice, “Oh Jehová, de mañana oirás mi voz; de mañana me presentaré delante de ti, y esperaré”. (v.3)

Cuando yo trabajaba de noche, dormía en las mañanas. Cuando me levantaba en las tardes, me reunía con el Señor. Reunirse con Dios no es sacar una cita en una cierta hora sino una cita en tu corazón. ¿Dios quiere escuchar tu voz en la mañana? Cuanto Él te mira en el comienzo de tu día, ¿te mira como un sacerdote que le ofrece sacrificios de alabanza? Es lo que la palabra presentar quiere decir en versículo 3. Habla de colocar el holocausto en el altar.

Cuando te despiertas en la mañana recuerdas que tú eres uno de los sacerdotes de Dios. ¿Cómo llegaste a ser sacerdote? Por la fe en Jesucristo.
“Al que nos amó, y nos lavó de nuestros pecados con su sangre, y nos hizo reyes y sacerdotes para Dios, su Padre…” (Apocalipsis 1:5,6) Tú eres uno de los sacerdotes de Dios. Eso quiere decir que donde quiera que estés, eres el templo de Dios porque tu cuerpo es Su templo.


La primera cosa que hacemos en la mañana es la que hacía es sumo sacerdote cada mañana. Colocaba el holocausto en el altar. El holocausto de expiación es una figura de una dedicación total a Dios. Si quieres tener un buen día, empieza dando tu propio ser al Señor como un holocausto de expiación, una ofrenda viva, santa y aceptable al Señor (Romanos 12:1) Un buen día comienza en la mañana y comienza en el altar.


¿Tu día comienza con Dios? Si no, decide a empezar cada día dedicándole tu propio ser como sacrificio vivo y pídele su guía en cuanto a las decisiones diarias y las acciones. Él quiere dirigir tu vida. Veas cada día como en regalo de Dios y determina ser un buen administrador de los recursos del día. Haz tu tiempo con Él una cita diaria.

Warren Wiersbe



Read Psalm 5:1-12


It’s imperative for us to meet God in the morning if we want to have a good day. Jesus got up early in the morning to pray, according to Mark 1:35. Here we find the psalmist saying, “My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning I will direct it to You, and I will look up” (v. 3).


When I used to work the night shift, I would sleep in the morning. So when I got up in the afternoon, I would meet with the Lord. Meeting with God is not an appointment on a clock but an appointment in your heart. Does God hear your voice in the morning? When He looks on you at the beginning of your day, does He look on you as a priest who has come to offer Him sacrifices of praise? That’s what direct means (v. 3)–”to order my prayer.” It means to arrange the sacrifice on the altar.


When you wake up in the morning, remind yourself that you are one of God’s priests. How did you become a priest? Through faith in Jesus Christ. “To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father” (Rev. 1:5,6). You’re one of God’s priests. That means wherever you are is God’s temple, because your body is His temple.


The first thing we do in the morning is the first thing the high priest used to do every morning. He laid the burnt offering on the altar. The burnt offering is a picture of total dedication to God. If you want to have a good day, start by giving yourself to the Lord as a burnt offering, a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God (Rom. 12:1). A good day begins in the morning, and it begins at the altar.


Does your day begin with God? If not, decide to start each morning by dedicating yourself to Him as a living sacrifice and ask His guidance for the day’s decisions and actions. He wants to direct your life. So view each day as a gift from God and determine to be a good steward of the day’s resources. Make your time with Him a daily appointment.

- Warren Weirsbie

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome post, Brian! I did not realize that the burnt offering was the first thing done in the morning by the OT priests.

Mike Jones

Anonymous said...

I found the verses that say the burnt offering takes place in the morning (and at night). Its in Exodus 29:38-46:
The Daily Offerings

38 “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day continually. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. 40 With the one lamb shall be one-tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you. 43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory. 44 So I will consecrate the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me as priests. 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.

Mike Jones