Hi Fam, welcome to Consistency. Happy new month of April. We apologize for last week not being consistent.
This month is the month of consecration.
We will therefore mainly talk about it here.

Consecration comes from the word “qodesh” in Hebrew which means setting apart, holiness, separation.

Exodus 3.5: “God said, Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground (qodesh).”

All that is offered is also holy and set apart to the Lord. It can be a day (like Sunday), a place as described in the verse above or a people (in the old covenant it was the Levites but in the new covenant it can be the case of all the children of God)

Let’s go back to the story.

The Levites
A people set apart for Christ.
Deuteronomy 18v1-2: “The Levite priests and all the other descendants of Levi do not save either share or inheritance like the rest of the Israelites; they shall live on the sacrifices consumed in honor of the Eternal, and of his due. They will have no inheritance among their brothers. The Lord will be their inheritance, as he has told them”

The Levites were a people set apart for God, reserved for the Lord. Dedicated to service in the temple; The Levites had the responsibility of singing and playing music in the temple.

The name Levi, like the appellation Levite, probably comes from a Semitic root meaning « to bind » or perhaps « to enclose »
Genesis 29v34: “And she conceived again, and bare a son, and said, Now this time my husband cleaves unto me, for I have bare him three sons; therefore his name was called Levi.”
The term could therefore be understood, not only as an ethnic designation, but as a name of state or function: the Levite would then be one who is « attached » to the service of the divinity, even « recluse » in a sanctuary.

Psalms 16v5: « The LORD is the portion of my inheritance, and of my drink; you maintain my lot.>”

Well, I hope you have understood everything I have said so far. I’m just going to declare it, we’re a chosen nation, set apart for God, our inheritance, our provision, what we need is not in the world, everything you need is in God. It is he who assures your future and your destiny. He is the vine and we are the branches.

To live a life of consecration is therefore to recognize that you have been set apart for Christ to serve him and to recognize that He is your creator and provider. So does He mean that we should no longer receive money from our parents? Since everything we need is in God? No, it is not so.

David is the author of the psalms, he was the King at that time. Was He lacking in good? Any wealth? Power ? Smart? He had everything. But it is he who declares in chapter 16 in verse 5 that it is the Lord who is his inheritance. Why not his property? Why not his authority?
The answer is simple, he simply understood that beyond physical and material goods, there is something even greater which is God. He simply recognized after so many betrayals, fights, persecutions that it was the Eternal who was his help. Not his family, not his soldiers, not his fame, not his riches.

The concept of consecration is quite broad. But I just want you to understand today that living a life of consecration or sanctification is more than fleeing from fornication or even from sin in general. It is also to be able to recognize that you must be able to separate yourself like the Levites from certain things without fear because you recognize the Lord as your support and your shepherd.

God loves you