Bible In 90 Days – Day 7
Reading: Exodus 29:1 – Exodus 40:38
Take Away(s):
- Underappreciated Intimacy. As I read chapter 29, with all the details and steps through which God had the priests go through for consecration, it struck me that we (as Christ Followers) generally underappreciate the intimacy that we have with God. It’s really only when we read passages like this – and the others to come – that we see what Christ’s death on the cross accomplished for us. As I type this, I am sitting in my room at the Disneyland resort in Anaheim (on a business trip). I just worked most of the evening getting ready for a conference, but came back to the room and worshiped the Lord with a bunch of people online and those who attend in-person Table Rock Fellowship in Medford, OR (one of my tweeps is the worship leader there). In the hustle and bustle of the “Happiest Place on Earth”, I enjoyed intimacy with the Creator of the Universe – the True Happiness Giver. No animals were required to be sacrificed and I didn’t have to wear a specific outfit or have someone facilitate my communion with God. My videostream-lead worship was made possible by my Savior’s amazing grace and sacrifice! May I never underappriciate the blessed intimacy I have with God.
- Silence doesn’t mean we need to strike out on our own. When Moses is on the mountain with God for so long, the people get ancy and strike out on their own and want to make gods for themselves. Aaron suggests and then makes the golden calf. This got me thinking how impatient we are when God doesn’t seem to answer our prayer or give direction in the timeframe we expect. Waiting on the Lord is hard. How often my plan seems the “best” choice! Forgive me, Lord…
- First Tablets Broken. Interesting – the ESV Study Bible has this to say about Moses’ breaking of the tablets…never considered it in this light. “When he [Moses] throws down the tablets and breaks them, it is an apt picture of what the people have done in worshiping the calf.”
- Reminded and Reinforced. I know when I read the sections on the setting up of the processes and methods for the environment for and procedures to worship God, it seems overly repetative. But – I think God specifically did that to describe them before and after the golden calf – to show that He gave the Israelites a “do over.” For me, it reminds me that, just as God did here, we must ensure we remind and reinforce the things of God for ourselves and those we have the responsiblity to lead in Christ.
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