When you begin to study into worship rituals you find that God adapted the early worship of His people from being random events in random locations to a set calendar and a defined liturgy. More than that, He instituted a specific class of people to lead in fit worship by establishing the line of the priesthood.

What is the best lesson we learn from this? God really desires intimacy and carefully guarded opportunities for interaction with His people. When worship is left to random happenstance it can much too easily be pushed aside by other facets of life.

When God said, "Let them make me a sanctuary that I might dwell among them" He expressed His desire for intimacy. God confined Himself into a little compartment that measured 15' x 15'... and for what purpose? Just to be with His people. This wasn't some temple dominant deity of Egypt. What a God!

You can be stretched by more of this thinking in our series:

#973 Worship Rituals #920 Altars #903 Sacred Objects

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