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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Chronicles 29:20-36
It took no less than sixteen days for the fourteen Levites and their brothers completely to clean up the house of the LORD and put everything back in its place. However it was not sufficient for the temple to be "empty, swept and garnished" (Matthew 12:44). The worship of the LORD now has to be re-established. Having only just finished sanctifying the sanctuary, Hezekiah again does not waste a moment. He gets up early to offer the sacrifices with the rulers of the city and the priests (without however taking the place of the latter as Uzziah had done). Note that the burnt offering and the sacrifice for sin are for all Israel. Let us never forget this: the believers who remember the Lord around His table are but a feeble "expression" of all the people of God. The bread and the cup recall the sacrifice offered, not only for the small number who are present but for the multitude of the redeemed who make up the universal Church.
Finally, singing accompanies the burnt offering. It cannot come before it. Without the work of Golgotha no praise or joy is possible. However, now that the work is accomplished, once and for all, the service of the true worshippers can begin . . . and will never end (Psalms 84:4).
