Tabernacle of Meeting Part 2: Can you imagine dinning with Jesus?
You already might have guessed: I’m so excited about this topic!! During the time that I was writing this post, I had the radio playing in the back ground on my favourite christian radio station. A short teaching of Angus Buchan was broadcasted and Angus’ first words were: “Can you imagine dining with Jesus?”
I thought I might fall off my chair!! This is what your Tabernacle of meeting time is all about :). You start it with a EXPECTANCY to meet with the King! If you remember nothing else of this post, may you always remember this one word: EXPECTANT!!
Let me put the question differently…now really test your heart: What would you do if you knew Jesus will be coming over for dinner later? What would you cook/prepare for Him? Would you clean your house, dress in your best clothes? I mean, this is Jesus Christ, the Son of God!!! Think about this for a moment…..
No really, think about this before you read further…. 🙂
Abraham had that experience in Genesis 18 where we read that “the Lord and two ‘men’” appeared to Abraham. Upon seeing them, Abraham hurried, in the heat of the day (when last were you in the Middle East in the heat of the day?? – you don’t feel like running!) to them and bowed low to the ground. He then invited them for dinner and they accepted. Abraham hurried to Sarah and told her to get three seahs of fine flour and to bake some bread. He ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant to prepare. Bread from fine flour, choice and tender calf’s meat…the best of the best for the King!
A modern day example… A few years ago, in a church, I heard a testimony and I really regret that I did not write the person’s name down who told it. God has been reminding me of this testimony countless times ever since (if you know about this testimony and who told it, please let me know!). It was about a boy who ran into his parents house one afternoon after playing outside, and asked his mother to prepare coffee for two because Jesus is coming to visit him. He ran to his room and started cleaning and tidying it. His mother did as he asked her and later, as she took the “play-play” coffee on a tray to her sons room, she found him dressed in his best clothes standing in a clean room, waiting patiently for his “Guest of Honor”. Guess what happened next? There was a knock on the door and in came Jesus! Now that is faith like a child, expectancy to meet with the King!! And then He comes! I get excited when I read Jer. 29:13 “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”
What is your expectancy when you have your quiet time in the morning? Is it to offload all your worries, issues, prayer requests and to read a Bible verse to do your daily duty? Or is it to have a Tabernacle of meeting experience, where the pillar of cloud descends and stands at the door, having the Lord talking to you as He did with Moses (Exodus 33:7-11)?
Be expectant every morning – He will meet you there!
Me? Well every morning at the start of my Tabernacle of Meeting time/quiet time, I make myself a cup of tea/coffee and I make another for Jesus. I know He is always there, but I have a expectancy to meet with Him, I invite Him, I tell Him that He is welcome. He is my VIP guest, always! And what kind of a hostess would I be if I drank my cuppa alone while He is watching;) If someone come to visit you at your house, then everyone present should have something to drink, right? Why should our daily meeting with Jesus be any different.He has shown me which cup He prefers and ever since this has been His cup. I never drink from it. Does He physically drink His? Mmmm, let me put it this way….I know He loves it that I make one for Him and I look forward to the day when His cup will be empty too!!
You might be thinking I have lost my marbles but like Angus Buchan also once said: “You cannot tear the living Jesus from my heart. He is my everything and yes – then I might be too spiritual or strange in your eyes but that’s okey. Why? Because when I had nothing, He was there!” And He sure did give His EVERYTHING!