What vow could a commoner (woman or man) take to devote a specific period of time to the Lord? Num. 6:1-21. What spiritual lessons can we take from this for ourselves today, in the context of deepening our own spirituality and our commitment to the Lord?
  
   From this vow of consecration we learn that we can see some very
   important things in order to deepen our own spirituality. Here
   we see that the individual can make and in their vow they will
   have to abstain from several things.
  
   In addition to abstaining from certain products they were also
   required to not cut their hair and not touch any dead bodies.
   Even if a family member died suddenly they were not allowed
   to defile themselves because they were holy unto the Lord.
  
   We can always deepen our relationship with God by the means of
   sacrifice. In order to draw closer to God we will also often
   have to remove certain things from our lives. Many will not
   be able to find the time to draw closer to God because the
   are unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices.
  
How do we, as Adventists, live in anticipation of a better country, regardless of whatever country we are living in now? What are concrete ways that we can protect ourselves from getting so caught up with our vineyards here that we lose sight of our final destination?
  
   We must constantly keep this reality before , we must not
   let our lives get caught up in the cares of this country.
   We can keep ourselves from this danger but focusing on
   the mission of the Church. The mission of the Church is to
   prepare people for that better country.
  
   We must lay up our treasures in heaven in order to desire
   heaven more than this earth. We will begin to desire the place
   where we have for so long stored our treasures. As we consecrate
   ourselves to God we will seal our citizenship to heaven
   and we will feel more like a foreigners in a strange land.
  
Prayer: Father I pray that you will separate us unto yourself. We desire to be citizens of the heavenly land. I pray that we will not be caught up in the things of this earth to the extent that we miss out on the things of heaven. We give our all to you today. In Jesus name amen.