It’s a common thing to feel that God is far away running the universe and we are all alone to navigate our life. However strong that feeling might be at times, it’s simply not the truth. God’s attentiveness to His individual children and the particulars of their daily lives is a wondrous thing.
“Take two onyx stones and engrave the names of the sons of Israel on them in order of their birth. Fasten the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the Ephod. Aaron will wear these names on his shoulders as a memorial before God.” ~Ex. 28:8-13
God instructed Moses to establish the tabernacle with many object lessons in view to teach us something about God. One of those visual lessons was to have the high priest wear the names of the tribes of Israel on his person when He would go before God. Now I’m quite sure God wasn’t worried He’d forget about the peoples of the nation He’d just saved from slavery, no that couldn’t be the point of the engraving. God was revealing that individual family lines of the sons of Israel were of great importance to God and He wanted them to forever be in His sight. It would have been very appropriate for God to put the many names of Himself on His high priest, but that’s not what He wanted to look at. He wanted to look at the names of His people. I’m sure you can connect the dots of what this means for us today. God is paying attention to us! God likes keeping You and me in His LINE-OF-SIGHT. ~Verlon
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