Dear Family,

Today is Tuesday, May 2, 2023. It is Day 24; and, it is Day 3 of Week 4 in our Count to Pentecost.

The Counting of the days between the wave offering and Pentecost ties both special events together. After His successful life as a human, our Savior was raised up by the Father to a life that is forever. The Father was granting Him glory that had once been His already. It had belonged to our Savior when He was the Word or Logos.

Certainly, our Lord and Savior was “ready.” He was ready for the glory. Being waved and accepted was part of the process. He was certainly “ready” to be waved. He had been tried and tested and had overcome totally and perfectly by the power of God.

Now, it is our turn. We are being tried and tested and are overcoming by the power of God. This time of Counting is a time of anticipation. It can also be a time of introspection and a time of perfecting. Of course, we did some of this prior to the Passover. God tells us through the apostle Paul that we were to examine ourselves and then take the Passover.

We can also use this time of Counting to Pentecost to continue to look at ourselves. When humans count their own days, we can learn how very frail we are physically. And, yearly, as we Count to Pentecost, we can be reminded of how spiritually frail we are without the Spirit of the Living God.

Some have used the 49 days (7 cycles of 7) to work on the inner self; to work on the personality issues that need to be prepared for an everlasting covenant with God. It can be a wonderful time of allowing God to accomplish a significant work in perfecting us. It can be a time of seeking to take on more and more of the divine nature of God through His Holy Spirit.

Psalm 119:2 Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart.

May God bless our efforts to prepare ourselves to seek Him fully with our whole heart.

Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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