More Reminders

# 122 – Today's Du-votional comes from 1Sa 10:3 "Then you shall go on forward from there and come to the terebinth tree of Tabor. There three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine. 4 "And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive from their hands. The scavenger hunt continues for Saul. Having been REMINDED of his mortality at the grave of Rachael, God now takes him to the hallowed ground of Bethel. It was at Bethel that Jacob had his dream of angels ascending and descending on a ladder from heaven to earth. This vision granted to Jacob would forever serve as a REMINDER of God's desire to be in fellowship with His people. The ladder being a picture of Jesus Christ who bridges the gap between holy heaven and unholy earth. The sinless Son of God making a way for sinful man to have restored fellowship with God for eternity. Man's mortality is swallowed up in immortality by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. At this point, Saul could've said, “Oh Rachael's grave, where is your victory?” 1Co 15:55 "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?" It was also at Bethel that Jacob asked the Lord to provide bread and clothing for his life's journey and vowed to give back to the Lord in the form of a tithe. Saul is given two loaves of bread to remind him of the Lord's provision for him as he serves as king. And so Saul is reminded of his mortality, and REMINDED anew of the way to immortality, and REMINDED of the One who will provide for his every need along the way, and REMINDED that in thanksgiving, he should return a portion of God's provision. May we, like Saul daily remember our own mortality and look to Jesus for our immortality, then, live in grateful response for all of God's provision.