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Miri
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I have put these doors together, as it really seems as if they should go together.
Deut 6 v 5-9
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.
They were to be part of the routine of every day life, during their comings and goings, a highly visible reminder of God. They were not something just to think about during a quiet time in the morning, before going to work and getting on with the rest of life. They were to be taken out into the world and carried where ever His people went. How amazing also that God wanted to be part of their daily lives!
What is our daily reminder, do we take God with us where ever we go? Do we realise God wants to be part of our daily lives, even the small things of life.
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1 Kings 6 v 31: For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the santuary. And on the two olive wood doors he carved cherubim, palm treems, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammererd gold.....
The building and decoration of the temple just really stirs my imagination. It was an earthly representation of the throne room of God. Maybe this is just my imagination running away with itself, but is it possible that just as people were to carry a reminder of God with them, that God also wanted a reminder of His people with Him and His plan for them.
The decorations themselves seem to speak of peace, new life, new beginnings, spring.
Isaiah 35 whole chapter is great - extracts:
v1 The desert and the parched land will be glad the wilderness will rejoice and blossom like the crocus it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendour of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the Lord, the spendour of our God.
v5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer and the mute tongue shout for Joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way..
1 Kings 7 v 19, 22, 26 includes lillies in the temple furnishings.
Matt 6 v 28 talks about the lillies of the field
Song of Songs 2 v 11 see the winter is past, the rains are over and gone, flowers appear on the earth, the season of singing has come the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
Maybe I am putting 2 and 2 together and getting 22. But my heart just stirs when I think on these things. A man at my church had a picture a while back during a prayer meeting in which he saw a door and as the door opened he could see a field of flowers beyond it - oh to step through that door!
I just feel that when we let Jesus in, the winter is past. Again maybe my imagination, but in the OT people had to go into the temple so see the decorations, to see the symbols of life and peace. But now we can carry Jesus with us and it is now all on the inside of us via the Holy Spirit, but we still need to go through that spiritual door and walk in that newness of life, it does not happen automatically. Life can become stale and sometimes it can seem as if we are walking in winter, but spring is just a door frame away.
PS sorry if I am gibbering now to anyone who reads this on CC!
Deut 6 v 5-9
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.
They were to be part of the routine of every day life, during their comings and goings, a highly visible reminder of God. They were not something just to think about during a quiet time in the morning, before going to work and getting on with the rest of life. They were to be taken out into the world and carried where ever His people went. How amazing also that God wanted to be part of their daily lives!
What is our daily reminder, do we take God with us where ever we go? Do we realise God wants to be part of our daily lives, even the small things of life.
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1 Kings 6 v 31: For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the santuary. And on the two olive wood doors he carved cherubim, palm treems, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammererd gold.....
The building and decoration of the temple just really stirs my imagination. It was an earthly representation of the throne room of God. Maybe this is just my imagination running away with itself, but is it possible that just as people were to carry a reminder of God with them, that God also wanted a reminder of His people with Him and His plan for them.
The decorations themselves seem to speak of peace, new life, new beginnings, spring.
Isaiah 35 whole chapter is great - extracts:
v1 The desert and the parched land will be glad the wilderness will rejoice and blossom like the crocus it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendour of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the Lord, the spendour of our God.
v5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer and the mute tongue shout for Joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way..
1 Kings 7 v 19, 22, 26 includes lillies in the temple furnishings.
Matt 6 v 28 talks about the lillies of the field
Song of Songs 2 v 11 see the winter is past, the rains are over and gone, flowers appear on the earth, the season of singing has come the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
Maybe I am putting 2 and 2 together and getting 22. But my heart just stirs when I think on these things. A man at my church had a picture a while back during a prayer meeting in which he saw a door and as the door opened he could see a field of flowers beyond it - oh to step through that door!
I just feel that when we let Jesus in, the winter is past. Again maybe my imagination, but in the OT people had to go into the temple so see the decorations, to see the symbols of life and peace. But now we can carry Jesus with us and it is now all on the inside of us via the Holy Spirit, but we still need to go through that spiritual door and walk in that newness of life, it does not happen automatically. Life can become stale and sometimes it can seem as if we are walking in winter, but spring is just a door frame away.
PS sorry if I am gibbering now to anyone who reads this on CC!
your imagination is strong but you relate them all with intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, its really nice and pretty for you and Jesus, i think its true that God wanna be part of our daily life even in a small things, maybe more and more we will have thinking about Jesus 24 hrs or else also dream about Him everynight lol