Tuesday – Pentateuch

Reading – Exodus 27-28

Highlight Verse:

““Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭27‬:‭20‬ ‭NLT‬‬

It has always been my understanding that the Old Testament was all about the priests interceding for the people. All the people did was bring animals to sacrifice and the priests took it from there.

I was wrong.

This verse doesn’t say to command the people to run over to the Walmart Supercenter and buy some olive oil to bring to the priests.

This command involves work.

The people needed to find olive trees, harvest the olives, and press them to get oil.

This command involves all the people of Israel.

It doesn’t say to have the Levites, or the off-duty priests get the oil. It says the people.

This command involves consistency.

The lamp was the symbol of Israel’s special relationship with God. To indicate that active relationship, it was to be keep burning constantly that the relationship should never die.

We may not have a symbolic light to keep burning constantly (except in some denominations), but we should remain diligent to always keep our relationship with God alive and on fire.

What are you doing to keep the light of your relationship with God burning consistently?
If that light has burned out in your life, what’s keeping you from rekindling it?