You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.5 Then you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod. Exodus 29:4-5 – We are invited into the process of how the priests who were to serve the Lord within the Tabernacle were to be set apart for the Lord’s work. They were to be washed and clothed to begin the process. Let’s though take in the reality of this process. First, this was all done at the entrance to the tent of meeting, not inside it, meaning all this was done out in the open for the entire congregation to see. The priest would be unclothed and would have someone else wash them, likely a humbling process. Then they wouldn’t even be allowed to dress themselves, but would had someone else do that for them. What all this was to represent was how they played no part in their becoming holy. They didn’t wash themselves clean and they didn’t put on their holy garments, someone else did that for them. In our process of becoming holy, we to have no hand in it, but have someone, named Jesus, doing it all for us. We are stripped bare before Him, every sin to be seen. He then washes us clean, making us white as snow. Then He puts on us His holiness, something we could never do ourselves. When looking at this process for the priests, do you think any of them should have been able to boast about their become holy as something they achieved? Nor should we. It’s not by our hands that we are in right standing with the Father, it’s only though Jesus’ work that we are. Praise the Lord we have a Savior who will work on our behalf and make us holy in the eyes of the Lord. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3173
Question To Ponder: Why should remembering you have been made holy be something you think on during the day?
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