Week 11 Thursday
Exodus takes us into the Holy of Holies, David pours out his famous prayer of confession in Psalm 51, and the Holy Spirit falls in glory on the early church at Pentecost.
Exodus 26
📖 What are we reading?: More detail on the tabernacle - its curtains, framework and pillars, including the innermost Holy of Holies where God's presence would dwell.
✞ What does this passage say about God? He is holy, and every layer of the tabernacle - curtain after curtain - shows just how carefully He guarded access to His presence.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? Refer back to yesterday's thoughts on the tabernacle - each of these elements foreshadowed Jesus, who tore the curtain and opened the way to God for us.
Looking for some extra info?
📝 A devotion on the Holy of Holies.
➡️ The bigger picture: Exodus, meaning "departure", was written by Moses around 1400 BC. It tells the thrilling story of Israel's miraculous deliverance from slavery in Egypt - a picture of Christ setting us free from the prison of sin.
Psalm 51
📖 What are we reading?: David's famous confession, written when he realised how deeply he had sinned with Bathsheba.
✞ What does this passage say about God? He is merciful to the truly repentant, and delights to restore the joy of salvation to a broken and contrite heart.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? David knows his sin (verses 2-5) and cries out for mercy and restored joy. Perhaps we can turn this whole Psalm into our own prayer of repentance today.
Looking for some extra info?
📝 A devotional series on Psalm 51.
♫ A song of Luke's based on this Psalm.
➡️ The bigger picture: The Psalms is a collection of 150 poems and songs, written by David and others, expressing the full range of human emotion in response to God and to life.
Acts 2:1-13
📖 What are we reading?: A huge moment in history - the Holy Spirit comes in glory, and the believers are baptised and forever changed.
✞ What does this passage say about God? He keeps His promise to send His Spirit, and He does it in dramatic, unmistakable fashion.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? Have you had a personal Pentecost, being filled with God's Spirit? May we be anointed with His Spirit and live in His power today.
Looking for some extra info?
🎤 Luke answers questions on the Holy Spirit in a Pentecost sermon.
🎤 Luke preaches on having a personal Pentecost of our own.
📝 A devotion on the type of tongues we see here.
➡️ The bigger picture: Luke's second book outlines the ministry of the early church - though it could just as well be called the Acts of the Holy Spirit, as He guides and grows Jesus' small movement into something that changes the world.
A Prayer for the Day
🙏 Lord, thank You that Jesus opened the way into Your holy presence, that You restore joy to a repentant heart, and that You keep Your promises by sending Your Spirit in power. Anoint us afresh with Your Spirit today. Amen.
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