As I was going though my devotions lately I have been going though Numbers and 1 Corinthians. Seeing how God was giving the levites their jobs and how they are to set out and stop according to when the Lord settles his cloud or takes it up. I started looking at back in the time in the wilderness they knew God was there by the cloud and could follow him where ever he would lead. We are to also follow where he leads. Back then they had a cloud or pillar of fire to follow today we have the Holy Spirit to guide us and direct us. I feel looking back that it would be so much easier to follow God knowing that he was there with us each day.
This cloud or fire would rest upon the tabernacle (that would one day be the temple of the most high God) with the vail separating us from God. It is amazing to see how the Israelites who had God right there and see that his presences and get his words from Moses and the other profits. I know that I have said before that “There is no way I could fall seeing things that they saw.” or even at the trials of Christ “I would not have cried out for the crucifixion of Jesus.” Maybe we all have said or though those before, thinking we are better then that but I know I am no better then Peter (The Rock) saying “I will never fall away or deny Jesus” then going and saying I don’t know the man.
Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians 3 about how we are now the temple and Christ is the foundation. With Christ as our foundation we can build our temple for the Lord on it. Depending on how we live our our lives and let God be a part of our life will determine the materials we are building with. Paul mentions; gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, and straw. He also says that all our temples will be tested with fire. 1 Corinthians 3:14-15 “If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.”
We are to live out our lives for the lord. Just as Peter failed, so too will we. We must learn to pick up the broken pieces take them back to God and let him put us back together. God will help us to heal those wounds and can help us change our straw into gold to better honor him with the temple that we are. God placed it on my heart when reading these passages in numbers and 1Corinthians, asking; “What is your temple built of?” and “What will it look like once it has been tested with fire?” I am now starting to ask myself am I building a temple worthy of God or am I only getting saved though the fire?
