Human Response 576: Keep the Feast and Daily Offerings

Ezra 3:4-5 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required. And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the Lord that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a free will offering unto the Lord.

When the Jews returned from captivity they immediately laid the foundation of the temple and built an altar. The response to God’s salvation and restoration was to worship and to offer offerings to the Lord. They praised and thanked God in the yearly festivals, observed the weekly Sabbath, and offered the daily burnt offerings. This pattern of worship is meant to penetrate all of life.

This example of yearly, weekly, and daily worship is the pattern that permeates all of our life. For God is always good, He is always our Deliverer, and He is always worthy of praise. Our whole life is a joyful, thankful, worshipful response to the God who saved us, continues to save, and will save us in the end. Our daily living is an offering to God, whether it is a thankful attitude in the heart, or praise with our lips, or kind words spoken to one another, or loving actions toward others. God is good, and we respond with worship.