The tabernacle

My Pastor is taking band with her to minister at a conference on Saturday so I'm looking after their practice tonight... and i'm doing a short devotion with them before practice... was asking God what to share...and He directed me towards the tabernacle. The outer courts and the inner courts and the priests and how it was so crowded in the outer courts with ppl slaughtering their animals for sacrifice etc. But the inner courts was just for the priests and the holy of holies was just for the high priest once a year...read Exodus 25 - 30 and it's so detailed, the instructions. Then i looked up a picture of the tabernacle and it made so much sense.

Very much like our worship now... its all noisy and crowded outside...but we are all priests now, and we need to step into that quiet place where we minister to the Lord in worship...and into the Holy of Holies where the presence of the Lord is and where He speaks and ministers to us.

Check out this song :

Take me past the outer courts
And through the holy place
Past the brazen altar
Lord I want to see your face

Pass me by the courts of people
And the priests who sing their praise
I hunger and thirst for Your righteousness
But its only found in one place

So take me into the Holy if holies
Take me in by the blood of the Lamb
So take me into the Holy of Holies
Take the coal, cleanse my lips
Here I am