What A Wonderful Picture

What A Wonderful Picture

One thing I enjoy when reading passages from Exodus to Numbers is to meditate on the symbolism of the tabernacle. I don’t always dig in, but the symbolic meanings often come to mind. Like gold represents Christ’s deity and the shittim wood represents His humanity. In Numbers today it spoke of covering the Tabernacle furnishings with badgers’ skins and blue cloth when taking it down to transport it. Badgers’ skins represent Christ’s humanity - no beauty that we should desire Him - and the blue cloth represents that He came from Heaven, and all that He did as He walked on this earth was His Father’s will. When the Lord Jesus walked among us, His humanity was evident to all - yet everything He did was touched with Heaven.

Then I read Hebrews 2 in my daily readings and there it speaks about Jesus coming from Heaven and taking on the nature of man so that He could die for our sins and defeat the devil. Added benefit of Him becoming like us is that He can identify with all the struggles and temptations we go through.

Hebrews 2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

The word “succour” literally means in Greek to “run to the cry.” When we are tried and are struggling, we just need to cry out to our Saviour for help, and He will come running to our cry.

Interestingly enough, my third reading today was from Song of Solomon 2.

Song of Songs 2:8-9 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

Song of Songs 2:17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

“Bether” means “division.” When we keep our eyes on Him, Jesus comes leaping over the things that cause divisions between us. Oh, what a wonderful Saviour!!

July 10, 2019 Jerry Bouey