This week we have been looking at the different attributes that go along with a marriage and what is expected from each side and how that relates to our walk with Christ. Today we are going to wrap it up by looking God’s presence in our lives.
Read Exodus 24:15-18 and journal your initial thoughts
These passages of Scripture talk about what they called the “Shekinah Glory”, which was the very presence of God. The word “Shekinah” literally means “to dwell” or “to rest”, and it mean the actual, physical dwelling place or resting place of God. Throughout Scripture we see the Shekinah Glory in the Holy of Holies and in the tabernacle. For them, God was present. God was dwelling among them, with them in whatever they were doing.
If God dwelled in the Temple and the tabernacle, where does God dwell in our lives?
Read Ezekiel 36:27 and journal your thoughts
Did you catch it? God’s promise is to actually put His Spirit in us. He is resting and dwelling in us through His Holy Spirit. His Shekinah isn’t contained to the Temple or the tabernacle; rather it is active and alive. It is with us wherever we go, and this changes the way we live. When we live in constant awareness of the presence of God we begin to take every decision we make very seriously, as if they matter.
Today may you see the Shekinah Glory of God in your lives.
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