Exodus 29 "Our Native Tongue"

Friday, March 14, 2008 - Brandon Hatmaker

(Exodus 29)

"This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect. And from fine wheat flour, without yeast, make bread, and cakes mixed with oil, and wafers spread with oil. Put them in a basket and present them in it—along with the bull and the two rams.” Vs. 1-3

Chapter 29 is riddled with procedure and motions. There are so many specific and detail focused bits of instruction. In a moment of personal confession, it’s hard for me to be on this side of the New Covenant and not look at these rituals as odd. They seem so temporary, because they are. How could these motions really ever get someone closer to God? The answer to that falls under the understanding of the Old Covenant. And, if you think about it, really shows God to be quite amazing.

In a culture and society filled with ritual and void of the Holy Spirit, God was speaking their language (even though He didn’t have to). I’m so glad today he speaks in a language that is opposite to our natural tongue, grace. God took it from external to internal for eternal sake.