OH NO!
I have officially entered into the parts of the Bible that I don’t really know how to blog about. Seriously, it is so much easier to write something meaningful about the creation of the world or about God’s covenant with Abram than it is to write about the specific directions for the building of the tabernacle!
Unfortunately… the book of Numbers is still coming, and you can guess what that is filled with, right?
(If you guessed numbers, you’ve got it)
Fortunately, this is the very World of God. Even in the pages that are filled with what feels like meaningless details, we can still find truth with the power to shake the very foundations of the world.
Tonight’s reading included all of the details that God gave to the Israelites for setting up the tabernacle and for creating rituals and standards that would constantly remind the Israelites of God’s presence.
In the midst of a lot of commands and details that I was trying to sort through, I bumped into the description of a priest’s uniform. Somewhere between a description of a breastplate and a linen tunic was one detail that truly caught my attention.
Priests wore a metal plate on their forehead…that piece of metal had the phrase “Holy to the Lord” written across it.
That piece of metal made it clear to everyone who saw that priest that he was set apart for a special purpose.
Every single morning that priest would have to consciously strap those words to his forehead and to acknowledge that fact that his life completely belonged to God.
A priest would not ever be able to see his life as insignificant, because of the constant reminder that he was set apart to be holy to the Lord.
Ok, so I am a twenty year old girl sitting on a squeaky old couch that looks like it escaped from a bad nineties film, how does this apply to me?
Here’s the kicker…in countless other places in the Bible, God makes it very clear that his people were all to be set apart as a “
What this means is that God calls each of us as his kingdom of priests to follow in the footsteps of those priests in the past.
We have to get up every morning and mentally strap the phrase “Holy to the Lord” across our foreheads.
We do not have the luxury of thinking that our lives and times are not meaningful, because we have been set apart.
We are holy.
Our lives are holy.
As you seek to serve God in this crazy mixed up world, never forget that you were set apart as Holy…your life matters.
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