Walking In God’s Presence Is The Most Wonderful And Valuable Thing. Series

Now we are really keen on this artist we’ve been to Ticatec and we have front row tickets, not only that the local radio station is running a competition a free back stage pass to meet and have dinner with our favourite artist, we hang on the phone and it’s our opportunity of course I know the song, the answers right and the Back stage pass is mine.

How are we able to do this? We know that Jesus died for our sins; we know that we can enter into a relationship with him.

We can enter this Golden place of God’s presence because, because of what?

Let’s read this account not of the tabernacle: but forward in history the tabernacle and two temples, plus restorations and rebuilds later, this is Matthews’s account of the death of Jesus.

Matthew 27:50-51

“And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split.”

Jesus by his death allowed us to enter into the Holy of Holies, to come into the presence of God the most wonderful and valuable place!

Do we wait pondering the bronze a metal that is manmade that is hard and resilient or do we stay with the silver a pure metal that is easily tarnished and requires a lot of polishing to keep clean,

Does anyone here enjoy polishing metal?

By our own efforts the bronze and the silver can both shine and glimmer or do we give up our efforts and enter in to God’s presence where by his gift alone we see that our efforts become an offering to him and no longer a struggle. That place of Gold that requires no rubbing no polishing. Because Gold does not tarnish.

We are set free to be in God’s presence so why would we hold back.

You may be wondering about your walk with God and how to do it, the struggle to be in his presence.

Like Oholiab we can come from a past that has been rough and be used by God for his best purposes.

When we serve him, and follow the call he has put on our lives, when we listen to his still small voice and his Holy Spirit is our helper and our comforter. This is the presence of God.

That golden place.

For some this may be a sense of awe and wonder in his creation or in their worship while to others it may be in those times of struggle in life when they know that God is with them, in the queue at the Supermarket, in the Christchurch traffic.

Being in God’s presence can be a different experience for different people. But it is the most wonderful and valuable thing.

Maybe you want to know the presence of God in your life, there may be some here who are feeling distant from God. There is a place here of prayer, if you are seeking more knowledge of God more understanding of his presence etc.

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