"3 And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering. 4 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; 5 also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil. 6 It is a regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord. 7 Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the Lord. 8 The other lamb you shall offer at twilight. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
9 “On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering: 10 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
11 “At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 12 also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 13 and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord. 14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year. 15 Also one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering."
Numbers 28:3-15
Still on the theme of worship and right relationship, we should notice the implication in 18 and the emphasis on the offerings in the morning and in the evening, it is that Israel's day was to be bounded and compassed on all sides by worship. Life was to begin and end with God. This does not merely mean starting and ending the day with prayer, for it is of course possible to do this and still live a practically godless life. What it means is that the whole of life is to be set in the context of God, lived for God, and unto God steeped in God, so to speak. This is life as it was meant to be, as it was designed to be interpenetrated by the dimension of the eternal, touched and suffused with the supernatural, the life, indeed of heaven upon earth. Certainly, this is the only life that ultimately tells for God. Only thus can we truly serve Him and bring forth fruit unto Him, for His glory. But we must beware of the danger of regarding this merely as a means to an end. Fellowship with God, regarded as a means to an end, the end being fruitfulness of service, can be a great snare, and will ultimately lead to the kind of failure to which the first generation of Israel came. Fellowship with God is the end in itself, and service for Him is the incidental, though inevitable fruit of it. This is emphasised in the New Testament also in the calling of the disciples by our Lord (cf Mark 3:14): 'He ordained twelve, that they should be with Him, and that He might send them forth to preach'. In this respect, the familiar catch-phrase, 'saved to serve' may be called in question. This is not the biblical emphasis. It is, rather, 'saved for Himself'. We are redeemed unto God, first of all, by the blood of Christ, and only afterwards unto service.