Acts 1, Exodus 37

Acts 1
Exodus 37

Food for Life:

Acts 1
This book records how the people of God were first called Christ-ians...and there is described throughout the book how the Holy Spirit moved among, from within His People in ways that those who witnessed and heard had to say..."that must be God!" "Let it be today Lord, even as it was in the days of the book of Acts!"
Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." This is no different that our instruction for today! When we receive Jesus, are born-again, we receive the Holy Spirit within...we have the same power that raised Jesus from the dead living within us. Also, we are to wait upon the Lord, day by day, moment by moment for the in-filling or empowerment of the Holy Spirit. For our heart, mind, spirit, to yield to the movement of the Holy Spirit; to 'walk in the Spirit and not the flesh;'.
Will you join me in being determined to wait on the Lord, to be filled with His Spirit, to be empowered by Him in order to live moment by moment by His strength and wisdom? His Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Gentleness, Faithfulness, Humility, and Self-control?

Exodus 37

Wow - how beautiful, well made the Tabernacle of God was..."The ark (also called the ark of the Testimony or ark of the covenant) was built to hold the Ten Commandments. it symbolized God's covenant with his people. Two gold angels called cherubim were placed on its top. The ark was Israel's most sacred object and was kept in the Most HOly Place in the tabernacle. Only once each year, the high priest entered the Most Holy Place to sprinkle blood on the top of the ark (called the atonement cover) to atone for the sins of the entire nation"(pg 162, NIV Study Bible). In Psalm 139 the psalmist writes that we "are fearfully and wonderfully made." After Jesus went to "sit at the right-hand of the Most High" and the Holy Spirit was sent to us, to live within us, WE became the tabernacle of the Lord. Not made with precious gold as in the Old Testament, but made in the Image of the Living God...fearfully and wonderfully made...we are!