February 6

I am struck by the great contrast in todays reading, Exodus 39-40 and Matthew 23:23-39. In Exodus we are reminded of the glorious beginning the Israelites had. What a revelation they had of God. Can you imagine the church where you attend...sometimes not even being able to go inside because the glory of God is so thick in there that it forms a literal, tangible cloud? Come on Lord, let it be so again! And yet, from that history, from that revelation, from that experience, over time, we find these same religious leaders being scorned by Jesus for their blatant hypocrisy.

A prayer for us today...may our lives be an expression of our God revelation and not a contradiction.

Pastor Fred