The following is an excerpt from our devotional series Living on the Right Side of Glory.

Peek behind the curtain today. That is your place. You have been allowed FULL access! Close your eyes and imagine Him extending His hand towards yours (Song of Songs in the Passion Translation completely opened my eyes to this!)

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We are now the TABERNACLE, His sanctuary – men and women called to carry His presence into the world – a LIVING sacrifice.

We offer our lives up as a sacrifice of praise (Heb 13:15). We are His living stones (1 Pt 2:5), a royal priesthood (1 Pt 2:9), sons and daughters (2 Cor 6:18) who carry the Name.

You [believers], like living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house for a holy and dedicated priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices [that are] acceptable and pleasing to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Pt 2:5 AMP)

Friend, we have been extended a hand to walk behind the curtain, to experience His Glory, to be touched by His holiness, to KNOW an intimate relationship with the Master of the Universe (Adon Olam). The temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom, inviting US into the Holy of Holies. The ultimate sacrifice (our Jesus) offered up on our behalf made a way.

…then I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “See! The tabernacle of God is among men, and He will live among them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them [as their God,] (Rev 21:3 AMP)

Therefore, believers, since we have confidence and full freedom to enter the Holy Place [the place where God dwells] by [means of] the blood of Jesus, by this new and living way which He initiated and opened for us through the veil [as in the Holy of Holies], that is, through His flesh, and since we have a great and wonderful Priest [Who rules] over the house of God, let us approach [God] with a true and sincere heart in unqualified assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us seize and hold tightly the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is reliable and trustworthy and faithful [to His word]… (Heb 10:19-23 AMP)

Do you believe this – full freedom, full access? Is your life a reflection of the reality that you live as one intertwined with the presence of a Holy God?

Have you encountered Him? Have you experienced His goodness?

Have you not just peeked, but have you stepped behind the curtain? He invites you in. The One who is worthy calls you by name and invites you to be a son/a daughter – to be His royal priesthood here on this earth. And as men and women who experience Him in that intimate space, we in turn RADITATE His Glory!

As people who have been in His presence, who have the Holy Spirit living inside of us, we carry His tabernacle within our being. We step into a room and infiltrate the space with His presence.  Think about how the Israelites couldn’t even get near Moses because of the glory that radiated off of him simply by having been with the Lord. We now CARRY that within us! We ARE His TABERNACLE!

…but whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom]. And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit. (2 Cor 3:16-18 AMP)

Have you forgotten that your body is now the sacred temple of the Spirit of Holiness, who lives in you? You don’t belong to yourself any longer, for the gift of God, the Holy Spirit, lives inside your sanctuary.  (1 Cor 6:19 TPT)

PRAYER:

Meditate on the image of peering behind the curtain. Then see it being torn and falling in a heap to the ground. That space, once only allowed for the holiest of priests, is the space He invites you into. Imagine sitting at His feet. Imagine the fullness that He offers you when you walk intimately with Him.

God, we are created in Your image! Grow us in awareness that we are called to be a temple to embody Holy Spirit. Would you mark us with Your Glory as You Yourself are marked?  Help us to radiate Your presence – wherever our feet step today!

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