With Oil - Monday January 28, 2013
You anoint my head with oil. Psalm 23:5
In the Old Testament, priests and kings were anointed and thus set apart in service to God. Oil is a symbol of joy and of the Holy Spirit. In the New Testament, every believer is a priest of God. We are to worship and proclaim. We are to relate to Christ intimately and proclaim the gospel intentionally. Who is adequate for these things?
Believers are to be anointed with the Holy Spirit, which sets us apart for service for the Lord. For, Jesus said, "... apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). I wonder how many of us (including me) really believe this? We are not adequate in ourselves to accomplish anything that will have everlasting fruit. But God is our adequacy, and He makes us adequate as servants of the new covenant. Paul tells us this in his letter to the church in Corinth: "Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves but our adequacy is from God who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter [of the Law], but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life" (2 Corinthians 3:5-6).
Without God's anointing in our lives we are merely going through religious motions. We are shooting blanks. We are kidding ourselves. In ourselves, we are inadequate for the eternal work God has called us to. We need His blessing, His face to shine on us, His peace to govern us, and His Spirit to anoint us.
May He anoint your head...and may it flow all the way down to your feet! (See Psalm 133:2.)
Submitted by:
Doug Brown
Lee's Summit Community Church
Lee's Summit, Missouri
One-Year Reading Plan:
Exodus 5:22-7:25
Matthew 18:21-19:12
Psalms 23:1-6
Proverbs 5:22-23
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