Monday 14 July 2014

Grace Nuggets - Christ Soaks Up Human Effort.


So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-Edom with joy. And so it was, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven bulls and seven rams. David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the music master with the singers. David also wore a linen ephod. Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn, with trumpets and with cymbals, making music with stringed instruments and harps.

I  Chronicles 15 : 25-28

The linen ephod soaked up the sweat of human effort.  David’s joy, excitement and dancing was an overflow of his heart. The presence of God manifest in the Ark of The Covenant was the Glory of God dwelling in Israel, the blessings of God at the heart of the nation.

Here is Christ, shadowed in the Ark of The Covenant.  We come into his presence through the finished work of Christ. Christ soaks up all our human effort, our works and self-righteousness and nails the Old Covenant to the cross and his blood destroys it.

We are free to dance, sing, enjoy God in an exuberant relationship of intimacy with the divine. We don’t have to wear a linen ephod to soak up our sweat because Christ took all our self effort and set us free at the cross.  We can revel in his grace, bask in his light, drench ourselves in his love and drip with his grace.  

His grace is a waterfall of his presence and an infinite ocean of his blessing, freely given and showered into us.

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