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MONDAY, August 1
2 Samuel 7:1-17. I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent and a tabernacle.
A tent for me is a temporary place. It reminds me of vacations and suggests a different way of life. The joys include sleeping on the ground, cooking over a fire, and looking at the stars through the tent flap. The natural world seems much closer in a tent.
For the people of Israel tents were reminders of the forty years they lived in the desert after escaping from Egypt. In the harsh desert they had come to realize that their God didn’t reside in a fixed place. They lived in tents, and so they constructed a tent for God. As they moved about, God moved with them.
We too are tent dwellers. Our tents—our bodies—are temples of the Holy Spirit. We are the tents of God’s presence in this world and God dwells in us. A tent is not a fortress locking up some treasure. It discloses what is inside. What others know of God will be known through us, our words, and our actions.
PRAY for the Anglican Church of Canada and the Diocese of Quebec (Canada, Canada)
Ps 80 * 77, [79]; Acts 18:1-11; Mark 8:11-21
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