Today's Thought

Today’s Thoughts from Exodus 28-30

 

Under the old covenant, there were so many ritualistic requirements for maintaining a right relationship with God, especially for those that were chosen as priests.  And to compound the nature of their complexity, failure in maintaining them or completing them appropriately could leave you excommunicated or even mean instant death.  While God desperately wanted relationship with his people there were many rules by which they had to prepare themselves for that relationship.

 

Think back to before the fall.  There were no restrictions on communication with God, Man and God walked together in the garden.  Free to converse at will.  Then sin separated man from God and for thousands of years we have struggled to restore that relationship.  The struggle is on mans part not God’s.  God has made possible the communication with him.  Now it isn’t without restriction and consequence because we are all sinful and therefore separated from God. But even under the new Covenant where we have direct access the father through the leading of spirit and the intercessory nature of the Son we still find ourselves outside this relationship looking in and wondering how to access the Father.  When all the time access for the believer is readily available.  We have the word, the spirit’s guidance, prayer, listening, and many other venues which can help in our ability to communicate effectively  with the father.  Discipline is the modern pitfall.  Whatever separated the people of Israel from God in the past I believe discipline separates us today.  The discipline to be a good communicator with the father is a daily responsibility that only the individual can fulfill.  Where rule and ritual were stumbling blocks in the past. Time and commitment seem to be our hurdle today.  I like the saying “if you are too busy to spend time with God, then you are just to busy” is a profoundly true and all to often dismissed sentiment. 

 

Where do you fall on the busyness vs. good God communicator line?  After all, look at your requirements to enter into Gods presence vs. what Aaron and so many after him had to endure.  Jesus paid the price to make this communication as accessible as possible in our fallen state. I think we often miss out because it seems simple and convenient, and put it of to never.

 

Don’t be so busy you don’t spend time with God today.

Rob