Sun.’s Devo - The Pure Oil

Read: Exodus 26:1-27:21; Matthew 25:1-30; Psalm 31:1-8; Proverbs 8:1-11 The fine detail and careful consideration of all the construction on the tabernacle makes me think of the way God made us. The curtains and the animal skins are like our epidermis. The frames are like our bones and the blue, purple and scarlet thread reminds me of our veins and our corpuscles. Psalm 139 says that we were knit together in our mother’s womb. The Holy of Holies is like our heart or our spirit. The Holy Place where the table of incense, shewbread table, and menorah is like our mind. We read God’s Word, understand it and receive its light in our mind. It moves to our spirit and we commune with God. The outside of the tabernacle was the same proportion of the human body. We are the tabernacle and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. The people were commanded to bring pure oil to light the menorah in the tabernacle. We are to put pure oil in our lamps so we can be able to see clearly what the Holy Spirit is saying through his Word. Our light must keep burning from generation to generation. In Matthew, we see this same oil. The oil is the Holy Spirit in our lives. We must allow him to fill our lives or we will grow weary in the end. That was what happened to the virgins who were waiting for the bridegroom. Some of them lost heart and stopped filling their lamps with oil, but five of them kept the faith and were ready when the bridegroom arrived. God has given us all promises for our families, our churches and our nation and we can not give up hope just because it tarries. Hope must be kept alive by faith. The second parable was about a wealthy landowner who left for a far country. He left his goods in charge of three servants. One of them invested and used his master’s goods to create more. He was praised as faithful and promised to be made ruler over many things. He was also blessed with joy. The second doubled his also and was commended by the master with the same blessing as the first. But, the third had hid his because he knew it would not benefit him personally. He didn’t want to bless his master with a profit. He was rebuked. The least he could have done was to put it in the bank where it would have gained interest. His talent was given to the first man. Jesus explained that the person who gains wealth from God’s kingdom will be blessed with more. The one who doesn’t eat of God’s table will not prosper but end in poverty. One day, we will stand before God and give an account for how we lived our life he gave us. The ones who gave up their lives for Jesus will be rewarded and the ones who lived their lives for themselves will be cast out. Love, may we freely give all you have given us without worrying about the opinion of man. May we walk in the fear of the Lord.