Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Exodus)
我夜间的歌曲《出埃及记》
Text: Exodus 33: 7-8
MEDITATION
Exodus 33:7-8
7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp.
8 So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle.
MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE
1. The personal tent of Moses
a. Each family had its own tent.
b. Moses had understood what God meant when He expressed His displeasure.
c. What God was displeased with:
i. The children of Israel went on with life as if things were normal.
ii. God had to actually instruct the people to remove their ornaments!
iii. There was no sensitivity to what the Lord had said and meant.
d. Some reasons why Moses moved his tent far away, outside the main camp:
i. To show that he was distancing himself from the stiff-necked people who showed no sense of sorrow over the deaths of so many!
ii. His tent was the temporary “Tent of meeting” before the erection of the Tabernacle.
iii. This moving away from the main camp was of symbolic significance.
2. Seeking the LORD
a. Those who needed to inquire of the Lord would need to go outside the main camp.
b. The Tent of Meeting would be where Moses had set up his personal tent.
3. Some respect gained
a. There were some who did not regard Moses well:
i. They were dismissive
ii. There was little appreciation or respect given though he had been the leader whom God had empowered.
b. New respect was now given to Moses.
i. When he was outside his tent, people who saw him arose and stood, to show regard for his presence.
ii. They would stand at attention till he entered into the Tent of Meeting.
经文：出埃及记 33：7-8
沉思
《出埃及记33：7-8》
7 摩西素常将帐篷支搭在营外，离营却远，他称这帐篷为会幕。凡求问耶和华的，就到营外的会幕那里去。8 当摩西出营到会幕去的时候，百姓就都起来，各人站在自己帐篷的门口，望着摩西，直等到他进了会幕。