The Pattern
In 1 Kings 6 we see Solomon begin the vast building project of the sanctuary.
Vs 1,2 "....he began to build the house of the Lord. Now the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits."
" A comparison of the specifications of the temple with those of the wilderness tabernacle show that the temple dimensions were proportionate to those of the wilderness tabernacle but with each dimension doubled."
Ex 25:40 And see that you make them after their pattern, which was shown you on the mount.
Ex 25:9 According to all that I show you, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it.
Heb 8:5 Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Neither Moses nor Solomon built the sanctuaries according to their own design, measurements or ideas. They never called in a human architect. Each part of the sanctuary was very carefully built according to the pattern God had revealed to Moses and then duplicated in greater size by Solomon.
God is calling me to a pattern. He is calling me to be a sanctuary, a temple of the indwelling of His Spirit.
1 Cor 3:16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Who or what is the pattern God calls me to?
John 13:15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
1 Peter 2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps.
I can see the pattern, the example that God wants my sanctuary to be built upon..he wants the dimensions of my life to be based on the character of Christ.
1 John 4:8 God is love
If God equals love then I can place God instead of love into 1 Cor 13
God is patient and kind; God does not envy or boast; He is not arrogant or rude. He does not insist on His own way; He is not irritable or resentful; He does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. God bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. God never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. So now faith, hope, and God abide, these three; but the greatest of these is God. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 13
God is calling me to live my life based on The Pattern....this Pattern is God and God is love. My life is to be a life of other centred love, giving and reflecting the love of God.
Deut 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Matt 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Oh Lord I so want to know this love and to live this love and to give this love.I want my life to be a complete reflection of you and your glory to be a sanctuary patterned after the similitude of you.
Vs 1,2 "....he began to build the house of the Lord. Now the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits."
" A comparison of the specifications of the temple with those of the wilderness tabernacle show that the temple dimensions were proportionate to those of the wilderness tabernacle but with each dimension doubled."
Ex 25:40 And see that you make them after their pattern, which was shown you on the mount.
Ex 25:9 According to all that I show you, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it.
Heb 8:5 Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Neither Moses nor Solomon built the sanctuaries according to their own design, measurements or ideas. They never called in a human architect. Each part of the sanctuary was very carefully built according to the pattern God had revealed to Moses and then duplicated in greater size by Solomon.
God is calling me to a pattern. He is calling me to be a sanctuary, a temple of the indwelling of His Spirit.
1 Cor 3:16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Who or what is the pattern God calls me to?
John 13:15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
1 Peter 2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps.
I can see the pattern, the example that God wants my sanctuary to be built upon..he wants the dimensions of my life to be based on the character of Christ.
1 John 4:8 God is love
If God equals love then I can place God instead of love into 1 Cor 13
God is patient and kind; God does not envy or boast; He is not arrogant or rude. He does not insist on His own way; He is not irritable or resentful; He does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. God bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. God never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. So now faith, hope, and God abide, these three; but the greatest of these is God. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 13
God is calling me to live my life based on The Pattern....this Pattern is God and God is love. My life is to be a life of other centred love, giving and reflecting the love of God.
Deut 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Matt 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Oh Lord I so want to know this love and to live this love and to give this love.I want my life to be a complete reflection of you and your glory to be a sanctuary patterned after the similitude of you.
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