DAY 38 Read Exodus 35 through 38.
Today's reading describes more of the beautiful furnishings for the tabernacle. One interesting sidelight mentions the time when people brought too many gifts to church!
Memory gem: "They spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work" (Exodus 36:5).
Thought for today:
As we study this great tabernacle in the desert, we pass within the veil to the sacred stillness of the most holy place. Here rests the ark of the covenant, within which are the Ten Commandments written by the finger of God on tables of stone. The ark is surmounted by two golden angels with their wings outstretched over the mercy seat, which is between them. This represents the throne of God in heaven, the very center of the universe. The mercy seat resting over the tables of God's law helps us to understand that "righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne" (Psalm 97:2, margin).
Here on the mercy seat, the holy presence of God shone forth in blinding light. No one but the high priest could sprinkle the blood of the sin offering for all the people before the mercy seat, and he could do that only once, at the end of the yearly services. In like manner, Christ appears in the very presence of God for us as our High Priest, our "advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous" (1 John 2:1).
Friend, will you not send your sins on beforehand to judgment in Christ? Will you not accept Him as your Mediator, the Man Christ Jesus? He is the One who is touched with all the feelings of our infirmities (see Hebrews 4:15). He understands what it is to live in this world, He knows what it is to be a man, for as the Son of man He has carried our humanity with Him to the very throne of God. Does your hope enter into that within the heavenly veil, whither our Forerunner, the Lord Jesus Christ, has entered there in heaven above to appear in the presence of God for us? (see Hebrews 6:19, 20).
Today's reading describes more of the beautiful furnishings for the tabernacle. One interesting sidelight mentions the time when people brought too many gifts to church!
Memory gem: "They spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work" (Exodus 36:5).
Thought for today:
As we study this great tabernacle in the desert, we pass within the veil to the sacred stillness of the most holy place. Here rests the ark of the covenant, within which are the Ten Commandments written by the finger of God on tables of stone. The ark is surmounted by two golden angels with their wings outstretched over the mercy seat, which is between them. This represents the throne of God in heaven, the very center of the universe. The mercy seat resting over the tables of God's law helps us to understand that "righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne" (Psalm 97:2, margin).
Here on the mercy seat, the holy presence of God shone forth in blinding light. No one but the high priest could sprinkle the blood of the sin offering for all the people before the mercy seat, and he could do that only once, at the end of the yearly services. In like manner, Christ appears in the very presence of God for us as our High Priest, our "advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous" (1 John 2:1).
Friend, will you not send your sins on beforehand to judgment in Christ? Will you not accept Him as your Mediator, the Man Christ Jesus? He is the One who is touched with all the feelings of our infirmities (see Hebrews 4:15). He understands what it is to live in this world, He knows what it is to be a man, for as the Son of man He has carried our humanity with Him to the very throne of God. Does your hope enter into that within the heavenly veil, whither our Forerunner, the Lord Jesus Christ, has entered there in heaven above to appear in the presence of God for us? (see Hebrews 6:19, 20).
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