The True Tabernacle: (The Laver) Series

The priests were to wash their hands and their feet so that they did not find themselves languishing and eventually dying. Our hands are what we do and our feet are where we go. They have to do with direction. We build things with our hands and we tear things down. The LORD was reminding those priests and us that it matters what we do! So he made it a point that they were continually looking at those hands at the wash basin. Their feet were what took them to and fro as they served the LORD and so the LORD had them looking at those feet, continually. Is the direction I am going ministering unto others and the LORD?

The brazen laver was much shinier than my crude example here this morning. It was made of the bronze mirrors of the women who served at the Tabernacle. No doubt these were Egyptian mirrors. They were the mirrors in which these Israelite women beautified themselves. Like we do today, they looked to see whether their hair was set, or if there was anything in their teeth. Hey, we ought to do the best we can to represent the Lord. We are made in the image and likeness of God. We will never be perfect, but we can be the best us we can be! These women gave their mirrors up when Moses asked for freewill offerings for the Tabernacle. And Bezalel took these shiny polished brass mirrors and formed them into the place where the priests continually washed. It was a place where the priest could look to see if everything was as it was supposed to be and they could wash. Wash their doings and their goings!

The Lord has given each of us some mirrors through which we can do the same.

James 1:23-25 talks about God's Word: "For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does." As we read this book our own hearts have a way of answering us to let us know that we are still not the fairest in the land. Proverbs 27:19 "As in water face reflects face, So the heart of man reflects man." There is One Who the writer of Song of Solomon said is the Fairest of ten thousand! He is Altogether Lovely! When we read the Gospels we are looking into a mirror to see how our priesthood is measuring up. Mirrors are for examination. Do I look like Jesus? Am I patient as He Is? Am I kind as He Is? Am I as inclusive as He Is? Are my doings like His Doings? Are my Goings like His Goings?

We examine ourselves in the Light of His Supreme example! And it is there that we wash. 1 John says that if we walk in the Light as He is in the Light then the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin! Hey, we have a greater Altar and we have a Greater Place to wash! As long as I walk in the Light that water and Blood are continually washing me in my going and doing!!! If we confess our sins, He is Faithful and Just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all sin! Not just a part, but ALL! When you read the book, make a determination to wash what you see that is found in the reflection...