the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 27:9-21
All around the tabernacle tent itself extended the court, a sort of large enclosed area where all the Israelites were authorised to enter with their sacrifices. (Psalms 96:8). It was enclosed all round with hangings of fine linen held up on pillars, which rested on sockets of brass. These hangings of fine-twined linen (corresponding to the spotless humanity of Christ) speak to us of the witness of practical holiness which redeemed saints are called to bear in the face of an ignorant and hostile world. Such witness is accompanied by sufferings for righteousness, and so all has to be based on sockets of brass, of the same substance as the altar of sacrifice, where, in type, Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example . . . (1 Peter 2:21). Glittering under the desert sun, the court enclosure must have been visible from afar off, proclaiming that God was there. May the Lord grant us to be able to render collectively before the world such blameless testimony.
The end of the chapter reminds us what is the source and the inward power of such witness: the Holy Spirit. In order that the seven lamps of the candlestick may shine constantly, pure and beaten oil had to be put into them; a picture of continual exercise on the part of believers to yield to the Holy Spirit of God the place which is truly His.
