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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 40:1-19
On the first day of the first month, Moses is invited to set up the tabernacle with its furnishings, pictures of the new relationship which God is establishing with His people. All things had become new and it is the LORD Himself who has made the provision for it all. Now it remains to introduce the priests: "Thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons" (vv. 12, 14). We think of the man who made a great supper and sent his servant to tell those invited: "Come, for all things are now ready" (Luke 14:17). The sanctuary has been prepared for the worshipper; it is also necessary for the worshipper to be prepared for the sanctuary: "thou shalt wash them . . . thou shalt clothe them . . . thou shalt anoint them . . .". "Washed, justified, perfected, we enter into the holy place . . — so runs a hymn. And for the priest there now commence his holy duties in their proper order: the brazen altar, the laver, the entrance into the holy place, the offering of incense on the golden altar. Should we lag behind when God Himself says: "Thou shalt bring", when our great High Priest, the true Aaron, introducing His sons into the heavenly sanctuary can declare: "Behold I and the children which God hath given me" (Hebrews 2:13)?
