Right now I am reading through Exodus and I am in the area about halfway through Exodus that all it is how God instructed His people to build a Tabernacle to be able to be in the prescence of our Holy God. It goes through incredible detail, even down to the colors for the embellishments for decoration. Then it goes into amazing detail about all the priests are going to have to wear and what they are going to have to do to make the area pure.
As I was reading it this morning, I was just bored honestly. I prayed "Lord, why do I need read all of these numbers about the length of the fabric that surrounds the Tabernacle. Why did you put it in the Bible in the first place? and why am I reading it this morning?". And ohhhh how He put me in my place.
I was quickly humbled when God started speaking to me saying, "Ally, look at all these people had to do to get My prescence. I am HOLY. I deserve every second it took for them to prepare for me. Far more than that even. But do you want to know the amazing thing. When Jesus came, He not only took all the wrath you deserve, but He made a pathway to Me. He made it so that you can call on My Name and put your heart in worship of Me, and you are in my prescence. Don't take this for granted, Ally. Yes, you can be in My prescence whenever you want, but it doesn't change how holy I am."
Then He led me to a verse that took this whole concept even further. In 2 Corinithians 6:16 it says "For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people".
Say what?? Not only do I not have to build a ginormous Tabernacle to get in your prescence, but you are INSIDE of me. Yes, I've known that for years, but it suddenly means so much more when you realize what a huge deal this is. Our Holy Lord lives inside us. Every single day, I miss this huge truth. Shouldn't this change how we eat? Shouldn't this change how we talk, how we think, how we use our bodies, how we do absolutely everything? It most definitely does. The Creator of the universe. The Creator of everything you can see right now and everything you will see for the rest of your life, lives inside of YOU.
I pray that we take this amazing truth to heart and use our bodies for what they are made for. A temple for our HOLY God.
