7/27/2008 8:18 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Turban
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Ex. 28:36-38; 39:27-31
Message of the verses:
“36 "You shall also make a
plate of pure gold and shall engrave on it, like the engravings of a seal,
‘Holy to the LORD.’ 37 "You shall fasten it on a blue cord, and
it shall be on the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban. 38
"It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall take away the
iniquity of the holy things which the sons of Israel consecrate, with regard to
all their holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that they may be
accepted before the LORD.
“27 They made the tunics of finely woven linen
for Aaron and his sons,
28 and the turban of
fine linen, and the decorated caps of fine linen, and the linen breeches of
fine twisted linen, 29 and the sash of
fine twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material, the work of the
weaver, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
30 They made the plate of the
holy crown of pure gold, and inscribed it like the engravings of a signet,
"Holy to the LORD." 31 They fastened a blue cord to it, to fasten it
on the turban above, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.”
Again the
picture of the high priest can be seen in the SD of July 24, 2008.
Being Holy
unto the Lord seems to be the theme of what the turban stands for as the words
Holy to the Lord are inscribed on the gold band that is attached to the turban,
or the turban was attached to it.
Warrant
Wiersbe points out that Jesus Christ did not die to make us happy but He died
to make us Holy and if a person is holy he can have true happiness because his
sins are forgiven and he has a relationship with the Lord.
Holiness
also involves having a “reverence and godly fear” of the Lord. I went over this in an earlier SD, and having
a reverent fear of the Lord takes balance as I must worship the Lord with a
reverent fear, yet I am also to know that I cannot please the Lord by trying to
do things on my own in order to “make points” with Him. As I stated before the Bible is a book of
balance and my life has to be in this Biblical balance, which is, at times, a
hard thing to do and even impossible without the help of the Holy Spirit.
The high
priest was the only one to wear this turban, as the other priest did have a
head covering, but not like this one.
Jesus
Christ, my High Priest does not need this type of turban on His head for He is
Holy because He is God.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Trying to keep my worship and knowledge of
why God is, is a very hard thing for me
to do and without the help of the Holy Spirit I will never be able to do this
and thus be pleasing to the Lord in my worship of Him. I do have a reverent fear of my Lord knowing
that He is God and that He is perfectly holy.
There are too many times when I want to bring God down to the level that
I am in, and thus loose the holy reverence for Him.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Fear the Lord with a Holy reverence.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path in all that I do.
- Worship the Lord in a way that is pleasing to Him as I go to church this morning.
- Put on the spiritual armor today.
Memory verses for the week: Exodus
20:1-4
- Then the Lord spoke all these words, saying,
- I am
the Lord your God who brought you out of the
- You shall have no other gods before me.
- You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
7/27/2008 8:47 AM
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