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I wanted to share with you something I just came across in the Bible that I believe might be profound for some people involving the Altar of Incense, sanctification, and its relationship with prayer.
Exodus 30:10 “Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”
So I expanded a bit through AI Grok and found this little nugget:
Why This Ritual?
• Applying blood to the horns “atoned” for any unintentional defilement from the priests or people, keeping the altar (and thus the prayers offered there) acceptable before God.
The atoned incense rising up to the Lord represents the pure, sanctified, pleasing, and acceptable prayers of the people.
I myself have been guilty of rushing prayer and jumping into just speaking to God and hoping he hears my prayers with intensity. I would completely skip the formality of speaking and doing the sign of the cross.
So I’m sitting here now thinking, “Am I doing that right?” “Are my prayers being heard?” “Is God listening to everything I’m saying or asking for?”
So here’s what I learned just now:
Why do we acknowledge the sign of the cross and speak in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit?”
Since JESUS is the ultimate atonement, applying the sign of the CROSS acknowledging JESUS and speaking His name through the Holy Spirit to speak to GOD, your prayers will be ACCEPTABLE before God.
BOOM! It hit me like a ton of bricks. It’s something so many of us do routinely at the start of prayer, but now I see the deeper “why” behind it. Because of Jesus’ perfect sacrifice, our prayers—offered in faith—are cleansed, sanctified, and pleasing to God, just like the incense rising from that atoned-for altar.
I’ll never treat that opening gesture lightly by forgetting or being too lazy to do. It’s a beautiful reminder of the cross that makes our prayers reach heaven. What a profound gift!
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