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04/19/2025 – “The Glory Inside the Tent” / Day 314 of 365 / an all time favorite devotional book for me. / For context, immerse yourself into the supporting bible verses at the bottom.

Again, each devotional of the 365 has a teacher and student dialogue premise:

“In the distance before us was an encampment of desert dwellers. Their tents were dark, mostly black, and a few of a very dark shade of brown.

What do you think the Tent of Meeting, the Tabernacle, looked like?” asked the teacher.

‘I would imagine very impressive,’ I replied.

‘Not really,’ he replied. ‘More likely it looked like one of these… much larger, but of similar appearance. Its outer covering was of badger’s skis. So its appearance would have been dull, plain, and unattractive. But if you were able to sep inside, then everything changed. The first of its chambers was called the holy place. Inside the holy place was the table of the presence, the altar of incense, and the seven-branched menorah, each of gold, each a treasure of inestimable value. And if you ventured even deeper, you would find yourself in the holy of holies with the ark of the covenant, within which were the Ten Commandments and on top of which rested the glory of God. All these things were hidden from the outside and could only be seen from within. So what looked plain, dull, unattractive, and of little worth on the outside turned out to contain the greatest of treasures on the inside. What does this reveal?’

‘You can’t judge a test by its coverings?’

‘Yes, and much more than that. In the world, most things appear more impressive and attractive on the outside and on the surface than on the inside. The reality is less than the appearance. But with God and the ways of righteousness, it’s the opposite. On the outside and on the surface it tends to look hard and unattractive. So the way of the cross and of sacrifice, on the outside, looks hard. But the deeper you go, the beautiful it becomes. The deeper you go, the more treasures you find. So too the deeper you go into His presence, the more glorious it becomes. And the deeper you go into the love of God, the more golden it becomes. And the deeper you go into the love of God, the more golden it becomes. Therefore, go deeper … and deeper … and deeper still. Go ever deeper… beyond the surface, beyond the appearance, and beyond the tent skins… to the treasures and the glory that await only those … who go inside.’

The Mission: Go beyond the curtains today, deeper and deeper into the tent of meeting to the innermost sanctum, until you find His glory.

Exodus 40: 34-36; Psalm 27:4; Ezekiel 44:16; Hebrews 4:16

The Glory in Your Tent

Comment:

I am adding this “spot on” connecting theme verse that Brother Mike sent me from Uganda in his comment to this post. Reason: Read only users cannot see logged on user comments. Y’all have heard the saying: “It takes a village.” Continue to pray for a strengthening and proliferating village through prayer and small group bible studies around the world; we are one in the body of Christ.

“The greatest treasures often lie beyond the veil of the ordinary, revealed only to those who seek the depths of God’s presence.” ……… Mathew 6:21

Soli Deo Gloria!

Jimmy