When I purify my worship God sanctifies my altar (Exodus
29:43; Exodus 30:19-21). God wants our reverence (Exodus 34:8) He gave the
Israelites instructions in worshiping from their heart and that applies to His
people today (I Chronicles 16:29; 2 Kings 7:36). At one time, God’s people were
unable to approach God because His glory was in the tabernacle. (Exodus
40:34,35) Even Aaron in Leviticus 16:2 and the priests in David’s time in I
Kings 8:31. Now because of Christ I and others that are God’s people in Christ
can go boldly before His throne. (Hebrews 4:16) In fact we as His people are
asked to come before Him if we are going to follow Him. (Leviticus 10:3) So
that we can do this, Jesus sits at God’s right hand and provides the way for us
to come before God.
But what can I bring to the table of the Lord that He
has not already provided? (Nehemiah
10:39) Do I bring my best, as God asks? Or am I desiring that God be impressed
with my works rather than to praise
Him for what He has done in me? Do I give “reverence” at His holy table? (Psalm
5:7) Do I declare Him and praise Him in His house (Psalm 22:22)? If I go before
His altar, all of me must be clean,
particularly my soul. All of me must be cleansed. (Psalm 24:3-6). My mind must
be cleared of what the world would use to take me away from God. God wants me
to be 100% His, mind, heart, soul and body, Much as Christ was His. (Luke 2:52)
It comes to the point where I share the Psalmists’ sentiment, “I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine
altar, O Lord:That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of
all thy wondrous works. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the
place where thine honour dwelleth”. (Psalm 26:6-8) and one thing I have desired
of the Lord, that I will seek after, and that is that “I may dwell in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life.” (Psalm 27:4)
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